[Nursing concept - an attempt of phenomenological approach].

The authors present a brief literature review about the phenomenological approach in nursing research. This issue is an attempt in phenomenological analysis of the concept of nursing. The answers to the question "what is nursing?", made by 251 nurses, were grouped in categories and compared with HENDERSON'S and HORTA's nursing concepts.

[Planning a nursing chart in the preoperative period].

The authors planned an instrument of communication which insure the individualized care to the patient in the perioperative period.

[Nursing care planning of patient in the surgical period: teaching of nursing student - I].

The authors, teacher of Operating Room Nursing, describe how to teach the nursing care of patient in the surgical period. Relation is made between knowledge and technic utilized. The importance of planning these is emphatized, as his contents.