[Perceptions about the hospital environment from the perspective of high-risk puerperal women based on Florence Nightingale's theory].

Objective: to understand the perceptions of high-risk puerperal women about the hospital environment based on Florence Nightingale's theory. High-risk postpartum period is the period of time when post-partum women care for their babies in the neonatal ICU, and experience high stress levels.

Methods: it is a qualitative study with narrative approach based on Florence Nightingale's theory, conducted at a public institution in southern Brazil, from January to March 2010.

[Ways of being nurse-teacher-teaching-nursing-care: a heideggerian look].

This is a qualitative study with phenomenological approach. It aimed at showing, under the light of Martin Heidegger's thoughts, the ways of being nurse-teachers in the experience of teaching-learning nursing care in a higher education federal institution in Southern of Brazil. The technique used to capture meanings was the phenomenological interview with 11 teachers.

[Nursing and the relationship with the mothers of newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit].

The relationships with the nursing experience of premature birth of a child, influences the experience of women. The aim of this study is to delineate the relationship between nursing staff and mothers with babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit presented in articles published between 2005 and 2010. We used the databases CINAHL, MEDLINE and LILACS for studies published between 2005 and 2010 with the following keywords: Neonatal Nursing, Premature, Mothers and Nursing Care, a total of 21 articles organized into categories: Phases Faced by Parents during the stay in the Baby NICU; Relationship between Nurse and Mother; Support of Nursing; Careless on the Relationship Between Mother and Nurse Education and Action in Health Studies point to the need of mothers for support that includes emotional support, involvement in caring for the baby, ready to come and talk.

[Care in Heidegger: an ontological possibility for nursing].

Given the dimensions involving human care, this study aimed at providing a reflection on nursing care as an ontological possibility. In Heidegger we consider the concepts that underlie the foundation of his thought. These reflections offer theoretical resource that allows the recognition that live in the everyday actions of nursing is a challenge that leads us to a new look at the magnitude of care.

[Hospitality as an expression of nursing care].

Qualitative research whose purpose was to reflect and argue about the relationship between hospitality, care and nursing according to experiences of PhD students. The research was developed from theoretic and practical meeting carried through by disciplines "the care in Nursing and Health" of PhD nursing Program at Santa Catarina Federal University. Its chosen theoretical frame of Hospitality perspective while nursing care.

Kuhn's revolutionary theory and its influence on the construction of nursing knowledge.

This is a theoretical reflection, grounded in the ideas of 'revolution theory' and its influence on the nursing profession. According to authors, many nursing schools have assimilated progress theory and embraced the claim that nursing follows the same revolutionary developmental model as the other sciences analyzed by this model. Thus, this reflection addresses the thesis that the existence of a single paradigm is not acceptable, especially in nursing, which works, assists and cares for human beings who present different perceptions of health/illness events.

[Care and technology: approaches through the care model].

To reflect about care in the perspective of the technology makes us rethink the human being's inherent capacity in looking for innovations. Historically, the relationship between the nursing care and the technology is permeated by the search of the scientific knowledge. Thus, the Nursing structured its knowledge body according to its abstraction degree and also having as one of its components the care model.

[The alterity as a criterion to care and to educate mothers who breastfeed: philosophical reflections of practice].

This study is configured as a philosophical-theorical essay about the practice of teaching and educating mothers who are breastfeeding and is based on our professional daily activity and on the concept of alterity developed by Emmanuel Lévinas. It broughts to light the disturbance that fill our minds in the search for something bigger in the sense of establishing a mutual obligation in the caring of women that experience the nursing process. We belive that alterity is a fundamental ethical criterion that when removed from care relations disturbs the dialogue and caring may not be effective, because the dominant thinking of normality eliminates the nursing-mother being, establishing a priori, the thinking manner to live a given situation.

[Permanent education at work as a process of educating and caring the caregiver].

This paper is a theoretical reflection on the possibilities of Permanent Education at work as a means to care for the caregiver. Educational practices are used to value caregiver's creativity, participation, and autonomy, bearing in mind his/her uniqueness in diversity. It indicates the possibility of education as an act of care, by inter-relating these two actions, and setting up the Educating and Caring process that occurs in the work setting and includes attitudes and responsibilities.

[The care according to Leonardo Boff's perspective, a personality to be rediscovered in nursing].

It is an essay about Boff's contribution for care in the macro dimension, from its ecological point of view and micro in the care among the human beings. The author bases the concept of care starting from theological, philosophical, social, and mystical questions, visualizing the human relations that move through the ecological dimension: integral, social and environmental. It aims to know/understand the care broached by the author for the ontological and epistemological fundamentation of care in nursing.

[Nursing training and the drugs phenomenon in the South of Brazil: nursing students' attitudes and beliefs on care].

This is a descriptive study about the formation of nurses regarding to the drug phenomenon. It was conducted with last periods students of Nursing Schools from five Federal Educational Institutions in southern Brazil. It presents and discusses Nursing students attitudes and beliefs about care, when facing the drug phenomenon.

[Nightingale's and Semmelweis' postulates: vital power and contagion prevention as strategies to avoid infections].

This qualitative research used observation as a data collection technique, guided by an instrument elaborated on the basis of Nightingale and Semmelweis' postulates: vital power/life and prevention/contagion. A brief history of infection control is offered from the focus of prevention/contagion. The postulate vital power/life is discussed, presenting the nursing care components deriving from it with a view to care development.

[Teaching nursing care methodology in Paraná].

This inquiry has been carried out among professors in the Nursing program from Institutions of Higher Education in the State of Paraná. It aimed at investigating the teaching process of Health Care Assistance Methodology for Nursing, by promoting and opening possibilities for interchange among these professors by means of a Forum. Data were collected through a semistructured questionnaire sent by regular mail, fax, and email.