COVID-19 vaccination campaign: dialogues with nurses working in Primary Health Care.

Objective: To reflect on the perception of nurses working in Primary Health Care about the development of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign.

Method: This is a participatory action qualitative study, based on the methodological theoretical precepts by Paulo Freire, which consists of three interconnected phases: Thematic Research, Coding and Decoding, and Critical Unveiling. Three virtual Culture Circles were held between February and March 2021, with 11 nurses from Primary Health Care, residing in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

Permission for departing: spiritual nursing care in human finitude.

Objectives: To reflect on teaching experience in the application of the spiritual nursing care called permission for departing.

Methods: It is a methodological reflection and description of a subtle technology for spiritual nursing care called permission for departing.

Results: the permission for departing is a spiritual care that allows for an intentional therapeutic relationship of trust and safety among the professional, patients, and the family, enabling the expression of feelings, beliefs, and religious or spiritual rites that help in death and dying situations.

Reflections and collective production about being a municipal health counselor.

Objective: to identify the participation dynamics of a municipal council and to develop a critical-reflexive process on "being a counselor", identifying weaknesses and possibilities of this council, in addition to collectively generating new knowledge and (re)elaborating the MHC Ordinary Law.

Method: Convergent care research, including documentary analysis, non-participant observation and thematic workshops. The research was carried out in 2016, with municipal health counselors from a city in the Western Region of Santa Catarina.

[The onset of sexual activity in male adolescents].

This quantitative study aimed to investigate the onset of sexual activity in male adolescents from Concordia, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The studied sample consisted of a total of 340 14-19-year-old male adolescents attending secondary school in six local educational institutions, who accepted to answer the questionnaire and whose parents signed the Free and Informed Consent. From these, 69.

[Power relationships in marriage and the prevention of AIDS].

This paper's object is to discuss the interfaces between the prevention of AIDS and affective-sexual relationships and power in marriage. The subject matter is interpreted in light of the foucaultian thinking of power, and emerged from previous research. The fidelity pact assumed by the man as a commitment to himself and to his wife, contributes to the consideration that the hypothesis of sexual contamination is remote.

[From condom use to prevention of STD/AIDS].

Men s attitudes were investigated regarding the condom use in heterosexual intercourse. The study was characterized as secondary analysis of part of wider research aiming to understand power in heterosexual intercourse from the man s perspective. The secondary analysis proposed to analyze research data obtained and analyzed in a previous study to answer questions other than those contained in the original study.

[Nursing knowledge].

It is a review of literature on nursing knowledge that has its main focus on the classification of the four patterns of knowledge identified and proposed by Carper: empirical, ethical, esthetic, and personal. Research material was made up of articles published in national and international periodicals in the two last decades of the 20th century. The analysis points towards the extension of patterns of knowledge, with the addition of three others, besides those initially proposed: sociopolitical, historical, and the unknown.

[Globalization and the second sex].

This paper is a reflection which takes as a starting point the process of globalization, establishing a counterpoint between the characteristics of this process and the propositions of the International Conference on Population and Development/1994, aiming at discussing it according to Sen's (2000, 2001) writings. This comparative analysis indicates that the discussion about equality between the sexes has become more globalized, emphasizing women's situation in the contemporary world as an obstacle to development, which was reaffirmed in the IV Women's World Convention in 1995. Subsequently, the paper addresses the advances occurred in Brazil after the implementations of the propositions of the Conference.