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Introduction: Nursing education in Cuba has been pioneer of multiple changes implemented by the Cuban Educational Model in the Health Sciences; therefore, there has been a constant improvement of the curriculum and teaching strategies. The need to understand and know the trend behavior in Nursing education motivated us to carry out this work.Objective: To identify the trends that show the teaching development in Nursing Education in Cuba. Material and Methods: Theoretical methods like systematization, logical-historical study, document analysis and the method of analysis and synthesis were used to study the teaching development of Nursing Education in Cuba. A guide for document analysis was developed, which included analysis criteria such as: teaching modalities, curriculum, teaching environments, forms and admission requirements, and the teaching-learning process. The contents of the guide were subjected to the criteria of experts with more than 10 years of teaching experience. Results: Two periods for the teaching development of Nursing Education in Cuba are established: a stage prior to the Cuban Revolution, and the revolutionary stage; being evident that the most prolific stage is the revolutionary one due to the new conception of Education and Health. From the analysis of every period, the trends in Nursing education, assumed from the Cuban Educational Model in the Health Sciences, are identified.Conclusions: Social relevance, link between study and work, curriculum flexibility and comprehensive training, internationalization of education, use of information and communication technologies, and student-centered teaching-learning process developed from the scientific method and the quality of teaching were identified as general trends of the teaching development in Nursing Education in Cuba.

Estuda-se a seqüência do tratamento de curta duração em doentes com tuberculose pulmonar, inscritos e com alta no período de outubro de 1980 a outubro de 1981, nas Unidades Sanitárias do Departamento Regional de Saúde do Vale do Paraíba - DRS-3 - da Secretaria da Saúde do Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. Os dados obtidos pela verificação dos prontuários dos doentes foram analisados sob os seguintes aspectos: distrito sanitário, idade e sexo do paciente, tipo de alta, esquema de tratamento, hospitalização, intolerância medicamentosa e tempo de negativação do escarro. Dos 308 doentes que constituíram a população de estudo, 254 (82,5%) tiveram alta por cura, 21 (6,8%) por abandono e 33 (10,7%) por mudança de diagnóstico, óbito ou transferência. Os resultados confirmam a efetividade do tratamento encurtado da tuberculose pulmonar com os esquemas recomendados, apresentando na área trabalhada baixas taxas de abandono e de hospitalização e resultados bastante favoráveis quanto à negativação dos bacilíferos.The results of the short-term chemotherapy for pulmonary tuberculosis performed on patients who were admitted to the Health Clinics of one of the S. Paulo State's Health Divisions and who completed the treatment during the period from October 1980 to October 1981 are shown. Such aspects of the records as Health Districts, patient's age and sex, success and regimen of treatment, hospitalization, drug toxicity and smear negativity period were analysed. The findings confirm the effectiveness of short-term chemotherapy under program conditions as corroborated by its acceptability to the patients, the success achieved and the benefits in the decrease of the number of admissions to hospital and in the reduction of the sources of infection within a shorter period.