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Objective: To identify the role of nursing in the care network for adolescents with special health needs from the perspective of family caregivers. Methods: Analysis of a research database carried out with family caregivers of adolescents with special health needs, users of a specialty clinic. Unpublished transcripts were read and later, the Pecheutian discourse analysis was carried out, the corpus of the study was composed of 30 participants. Results: Nursing was the reference in the care of adolescents with special health needs, there is a relationship of trust and help, supported by the credibility of these professionals facing the demands of care required by adolescents. With emphasis on those who worked at the hospital and clinic where the study was carried out, due to the frequent hospitalizations of adolescents. Conclusion: The nurse represents help, support, guidance for the development and continuity of care for these adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: To know how nursing professionals perceive their work and the challenges of their daily lives in a pediatric inpatient unit. Methods: Qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, carried out with nursing professionals from a pediatric inpatient unit of a philanthropic hospital in southern Brazil. The data were produced from semi-structured interviews and submitted to thematic content analysis. Results: The first analytical category showed the professionals' perceptions about nursing work and daily challenges in a pediatric unit. The second analytical category, on the other hand, revealed the demands of continuing education for the qualification of nursing work in a pediatric unit. Conclusion: Nursing professionals faced the challenge of promoting qualified and humanized care, despite the immersion in a daily routine and accumulation of activities, highlighting permanent education as a possibility to enhance their professional practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Report strategies used by professors of undergraduate nursing courses in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina and the and the challenges facing remote education during the pandemic by the new coronavirus. Methods: Experience report developed by professors of undergraduate nursing courses on the strategies used for remote education in virtue of social distance from the new coronavirus pandemic. Results: In a short period it was necessary to adapt teaching through the use of new digital technologies, in order to provide meaningful moments that contribute to the training of students. Among the main challenges is the difficulty of students accessing the internet what can cause evasion and interfere with learning. Strategies such as the use of interactive technologies were shown to facilitate remote teaching. Conclusion: The challenge of the teacher in the remote teaching process is based on the difficulty of using new technologies and on how to make classes more motivational, attractive and meaningful. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]