The Idealized Brazilian Health System versus the real one: contributions from the nursing field.

Objective: to identify the perceptions of professionals working in a facility connected with the Brazilian Unified Health System - SUS in regard to what they know, think and talk about public health policy.

Method: this exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative nature was conducted with 28 professionals working in a facility connected with the SUS. Data were collected through interviews with guiding questions and analyzed through the thematic content analysis technique.

[Modes of subjectivity production of nurses for decision making].

This study aimed to analyze the nurse's ways of production of subjectivity in decision-making processes that involve nursing care. We adopted qualitative research design. The investigative scenario was a philanthropic hospital in the State of Rio Grande do Sul.

[Nurses' subjectivity production and the decision-making in the process of care].

This study aimed to understand the relationship between Nurse's production of subjectivity and the decision-making in the process of Nursing care. A qualitative design of research was conducted. The investigation was carried out with twelve nurses who work at the Associação de Caridade Santa Casa do Rio Grande, a hospital located in Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.

Moral distress: challenges for an autonomous nursing professional practice.

Constantly experiencing limiting situations that hinder a professional practice coherent with its principles - of autonomy and advocacy of users' interests -, and often conditioned to experience moral distress, the nursing profession plays a prominent role in the current health model because it has the characteristic of managing the care rendered to users in a perspective of social inclusion, both in the basic health network and in hospitals. Aiming at carrying out a reflection on the nursing practice and the difficulties present in its work routine, and considering its characteristics as a profession, this article sought to make a reflection between the practice of nursing and the numerous moral challenges imposed by the routine, resulting, in many cases, in a value crisis that can reverberate directly on the quality of the service rendered, and in abandonment of the ideals of advocacy for users.

[Elderly human being with ostomy and environments of care: reflection on the perspective of complexity].

This is discussion about the relationship between elderly human beings with ostomy and their environments care, under the perspective of Complexity Edgar Morin. An axis holds the reflection: environments of care for elderly humans with ostomy. In this sense, we present three types of environment that surround the context of elderly humans with ostomy: home environment, group environment and hospital environment.

[Option and evasion of a bachelor's degree programme in nursing evaded students' perception].

Qualitative study, developed in a Federal University in southern Brazil aiming to know the motives for choosing and evading a Bachelor's degree programme in Nursing, in the evaded students 'perception. The data were collected through a questionnaire sent by e-mail to 19 evaded students. The 9 questionnaires that returned were submitted to Qualitative Textual Analysis, and two categories emerged motives to opt for the nursing programme and motives to evade from the nursing programme.

Infant mortality and prenatal care: contributions of the clinic in the light of Canguilhem and Foucault.

This review study aimed to verify how studies conducted in Brazil have related infant mortality to prenatal care and to present contributions of the clinic in the light of Canguilhem and Foucault for qualification of the care. An integrative literature review was conducted from searches in the databases SciELO, LILACS, MEDLINE and BDENF for the period 2000 to 2009. The relationship between infant mortality and prenatal care is related to the insufficient number of consultations or to the quality of the care provided.

[Management of nursing personnel with job security: perceptions of nurses].

This study aimed to identify a university hospital nurses' perception on the management of nursing personnel with job security, using data collected from a qualitative research developed with sixteen nurses, in 2010. The data, collected through semi-structured interviews, and analyzed by Thematic Analysis, produced two empirical categories: Security at work versus the impunity afforded by tenure; Job stability and (un)involvement in nursing work. It has been verified that job stability provides security of employment; security spawns impunity, and nurses are reluctant to conduct administrative proceedings.

[Woman's participation in the decision process of the pregnancy and puerperal cycle: nursing care integrative review].

This is an integrative review that aims to identify the contribution of nursing care for woman's participation in the decision process of the pregnancy and puerperal cycle, as described in Brazilian scientific publications. The scientific productions were retrieved in May, 2010, from the Virtual Library of Health (Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde) database. From the eight articles reviewed, two themes stood out: Contributions of nursing care to the woman's participation in the decision process of the pregnancy and puerperal cycle; and Limitations of nursing care to the woman's participation in the decision process of the pregnancy and puerperal cycle.

[Reactions and feelings of nursing professionals facing their patients' death].

This study aims to know the reactions and feelings of nursing professionals facing their patients' death. This qualitative research was developed at the Medical Clinic Unit of a university hospital in Southern Brazil. The population of the study was composed of four nurses and five nursing technicians that work at this unit.

[The scientific nursing production about the clinic: an integrativa review].

The objective of this study was to learn about the production of nursing knowledge in Brazil associated with the clinic theme. This is a qualitative study performed by means of an integrative review. Data collection was performed on the SciELO database using the keywords nursing and clinic, present in the abstracts of articles.

[Philosophical perspectives about the use of technology in critical care nursing].

The context of health assistance has been influenced by changes which are produced in the dimension of technology. They have triggered a lot of inquietude and questioning regarding benefits, risks, and relations constructed among workers and sick, and the use of machines as indispensable tools for care. This paper aims at reflecting on the use of technology in nursing care given to the critical sick in the intensive care unit.

[Moral distress and the ethical dimension in nursing work].

Nurses face moral problems, moral dilemmas and moral distress in their professional daily. The moral distress manifests itself when nurses demonstrate difficulties to face situations morally appropriate following their conscious. The study aims to focus about the nurses' moral distress and their relationship with moral problems and moral dilemmas presenting concepts, moral distress experiences and possible strategies to be adopted to face it.

[Ethnonursing as research methodology for the congruence of care].

Etnonursing, as a research methodology, is applied to approach the cultural context and of care in health of one specific culture. Aiming at demonstrating the process of application of this methodology in nursing, from what is proposed by Leininger, four steps of observation are presented, one of interview and for steps of analysis of data, covering specific and congruent criteria with the qualitative paradigm. These steps are not isolated, they relate to one another in an intricate way.

[Perceptions of nursing team as to the father as a caretaker in pediatric wards].

Fathers have increasingly participated in child care. The objective of this study was to identify the perceptions of the nursing staff as the presence of the father as a caregiver in pediatric units. A qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study was conducted during the first semester of 2005 in a pediatric unit of a university hospital in Brazil.

[Nurses' perception of their work vis-a-vis patients' rights].

This exploratory-descriptive survey was carried out with a sample consisting of 73 nurses from two hospitals in order to know the perception they have of their work via-a-vis patients' rights and develop an instrument capable of measuring such perception. Four constructs referring to the nurses' performance via-a-vis patients' rights were identified and validated, based on questions the nurses answered: preservation of individuality; respect for the patient's autonomy; personal identification; and information for decision-taking. Preservation of individuality was the construct with the best performance.

[Promotion of breastfeeding by the nursing staff of a children-friendly hospital].

This study derived from the observation of the difficulties in breastfeeding experienced by mothers dismissed from a university hospital. Nurses were interviewed, and observations were made to identify problems and possible strategies in order to make the proposal of becoming a children-friendly hospital feasible. The identified problems were insufficient staff excessive tasks performed by nurses, lack of continuity in the health team work, out-of-context guidelines, lack of commitment with the proposal.

Nursing ethics and its relation with power and work organization.

Difficulties faced in the nursing routine, mainly in hospitals, have been reported without the resulting ethical implications to workers and especially to clients, been sufficiently questioned. The work organization can be the main source of suffering to nursing workers, related to the exercise of power of different actors involved in the health institutions, which can potentially cause multiple problems and distress of ethical order. This study aims to make a critical reflection about some relations between the nursing work organization, power relations and its ethical dimension.

[The experience of mastectomized woman: a bibliographic research].

This study aimed at knowing the scientific production concerning the care to the mastectomized woman, focusing the revealed feelings, the difficulties faced and the care strategies adopted by the nursing, a bibliographical search was carried out with 23 published articles since 1990, in national periodics. Using the proposed methodology by Salvador, the main women's feelings identified was fear, rejection, guilty and loss; amongst the difficulties, stand out the auto-image acceptance, the confrontation of the prejudice and the collateral effect of chemotherapeutic treatment, specially the alopecia, the pain and the physical difficulties. As main care strategy, it was identified the group activities, aiming at promotin the mastectomized woman self-esteem and to contribute for her quality of life.

[AIDS and diabetes mellitus versus distributive justice in the public health system].

Reflection about the way of distributing public resources in the area of health and the ensuing consequences. The fairness of distributive justice is questioned. We propose a contextual reading of the official figures through interrelations that make it possible to understand the meaning of government figures.

[Self care as a condition for care to others in health practice].

We need to take a critical look at our practices and the relationships we construct in our personal and professional life, with a view to leading a life guided by ethics. In this text, we discuss governability practices that are built in the relations between health and especially nursing professionals, with the health institutions, with the clients and with the nursing profession. We conclude that, for persons to deliver care and guide others, like nurses do in their practice, they first need to demonstrate that they can guide themselves, that they know the limits of their practice and can respect the other as someone different from themselves.

[Humanized care for the oncologic patient: reflections with the health team].

The present study is concerning a practice of assistance built and implemented with the health team members of an Oncology and Radiotherapy Service in a large general hospital in the east part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, attempting to make the assistance more humane. It was a possibility of reflecting with the work team about the assistance provided to the patients in light of the proposals of SUS (New Public Health System) and with the perspective of the humanistic approach and its methodological proposals.