[Meanings of research in the professional practice of clinical nurses].

The aim of this study was to analyze the meanings given to investigative research by nurse clinicians enrolled in a research support group. The interpretive anthropology theoretical frame was used along with an ethnographic case study. Data was collected through semi-structured individual and group interviews, document and statement analysis as well as field diary notes.

[Leprosy: control of household contacts in the municipality of Londrina-PR for a ten-year period].

The purpose of this descriptive study is to analyze variables related to leprosy patients' household contacts who received treatment in Londrina-PR-Brazil for a ten-year period. The data analysis was based on the health service's records and from a system of infectious disease. Out of 1055 leprosy's patients, it was recorded 3394 contacts with an average of 3,2.

[Living with sexual diversity: experience report].

This study reports the experience of undergraduate students and faculty from the School of Nursing - Londrina State University, in a Civil Society Organization (CSO) that works with transvestites and men who provide sexual services for a fee. In the first school semester, students and faculty remained daily at CSO in order to care for immediate necessities and perform weekly lectures. In the second semester, workshops on sexual diversity were ministered by the transvestites to students and faculty followed by workshops, that were ministered, weekly, by students and faculty involving themes previously chosen by the transvestites.

[The meaning of learning how to research during graduation].

This paper is based on the following inquiry: how do the students realize their research learning process? The aim was to understand the meaning of learning how to research to students. It is a qualitative study that uses the Bardin referential. The sheet used to collect the data had the two guideline questions and were applied to 42 students of the Transition Curriculum and to 49 students of the Integrated Curriculum at UEL Nursing Course.

[Academic activity report as a strategy for learning research].

This study aimed to analyze academic activity reports about the structure and mental abilities developed by graduate students of two nursing curriculum proposals at a Brazilian university. The study was based on 83 students: 39 from the Transition Curriculum (group I) and 44 from the Integrated Curriculum (group II). Data were collected through a registration card with topics from the December 2002 report by group I and the December 2003 report by group II.