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Objective: To understand the social representations of the use of concept maps in a tutorial group of nursing students. Methods: Qualitative research, based on the Collective Subject Discourse analysis of 26 students from a public university in the Midwest of Brazil. Results: Two categories emerged from the discourse analysis: 1) Concept Map: a facilitating tool for learning organization and 2) Concept Map: a tool that causes tension and disadvantages learning. Conclusion: The concept map facilitates self-study and learning, as it enables the synthesis of knowledge and the organization of reasoning. Regarding their collective use, there were flaws in the time spent in elaboration and in the need to find linking words. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: Describe the use of Yoga in breastfeeding support, from the perspective of nursing mothers. Methods: This is an exploratory, descriptive study with a qualitative approach, with ten lactating women, from the municipality of Niterói - RJ, in the period between May and September 2018, using the structured interview, workshop as data production tool Yoga and field diary. The data were submitted to discourse analysis in the thematic modality. Results: Three categories were identified: Yoga as emotional and physical support for mothers; The assistance of the health team, and the meanings of the experience during the parturition and breastfeeding process; and The mother-baby relationship as a basis for maternal well-being and continuity of breastfeeding. Conclusion: The convergence between Yoga and breastfeeding is identified, since the physiological and psychic processes are manifested in the health of the physical body, holistically interconnected. The senses and negative emotions, reported in the breastfeeding process were minimized with the use of yoga as a therapeutic resource. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the process of articulation between the Reference Center for Occupational Health and the Basic Health Unit. Methods: Exploratory, descriptive and observational study, with a qualitative approach using the Discourse Analysis technique proposed by Fiorin, using the scenarios of researches the Reference Center in Occupational Health, João Pessoa and the Basic Health Unit Integrating Lives. Results: Users use Primary Health Care as a gateway to the health system, however, the significant majority of professionals participating in the research, only resolve the symptoms and do not intervene in the origin of the problems. Conclusion: A worrying disarticulation between Primary Health Care and the Reference Center for Occupational Health was revealed and some intervention proposals were listed in the work process aimed at overcoming this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to know the that women and men with a labor or student bond of the Federal University of São João del-Rei, Campus Central-West, know about the climacteric and menopause. Method: a unique case study, with a qualitative approach and based on the technique of Critical Discourse Analysis. The survey counted on 43 participants, being 15 women and 28 men. Results: the distinction between the phases of female life understood by the climacteric and the menopause is not always clear to the participants, being unknown, especially, by the male participants. In addition, it is a time when women complain of various symptoms, both biological and psychological. Conclusion: there is a lag in women's knowledge regarding such periods. Men's total ignorance of the climacteric is noted, and few know what menopause is. In view of the above, it is evident the need for further studies that seek to explore the menopausal / climacteric theme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To analyze the difficulties experienced by the Community Health Agents in their daily life in the realization of health education in Primary Care. Methodology: Descriptive research, of a qualitative nature, based on the conceptual frameworks of Michel Pêcheux's discourse analysis. Results: We identified factors that generated difficulties in the daily life of health education practices and, consequently, a restriction on the actions performed by the agents. Discussion: The main difficulties were: public resistance to participate in actions; influences of the biomedical model; lack of management support and the need to use bargaining as a method of encouraging the population to participate in health education activities. Conclusion: It is important to emphasize the construction of care in order to overcome the obstacles of the work routine in relation to health education, since it is a possibility of social empowerment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to describe the perception of health professionals about the aspects related to humanization at birth and birth. Methodology: A descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out with 26 health professionals specialized in obstetrics (10 nurses and 16 physicians) from three public maternity hospitals at usual risk In Recife-PE. Critical analysis of discourse was used as theoretical reference. Results: Difficulties faced in the development of delivery and birth care; Divergent discourse regarding the humanization of delivery and birth care; Divergence between assisted obstetric care models. Conclusions: the need to extend the understanding of humanization of birth and birth by professionals is perceived, with the objective of paying attention to the needs of the parturient and the family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to know the historical process of the creation of the Midwifery Technical Chamber and its determinants; identifying the reasons that gave rise to the institutional support offered to Midwifery by the Technical Chamber of Minas Gerais Regional Council of Nursing (COREN-MG). Methodology: social-historic study, from secondary data and semi-structured interviews, which were analyzed based on discourse analysis. Results: midwifery Technical Chamber is a landmark in support to Midwifery; their actions provided sociopolitical advances in the field of autonomy. Conclusion: midwifery and Women's Health Technical Chambers play a major role in practice, regulation and training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to understand how nurses understand the applicability of early intension directives in the care of the last phases of life. Methodology: qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, carried out with eight nurses from a university hospital in the south of Brazil, in December 2014, based on semi-structured interviews, submitted to discursive textual analysis. Results: three categories emerged: conflicts in patient care in the final phase; Advantages and difficulties in the applicability of antecipated directives of intention; Benefits in the applicability of the antecipated intension directives by the nursing. Conclusion: The antecipated directives are related to the respect of personal autonomy, however a practice surrounded by fears and concern of its fulfillment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: this study aimed to know the perception of patients about the therapeutic procedures used by the nursing staff for the relief of pain. Methodology: qualitative study with 38 patients from a public hospital. In the data collection we used the semi structured interview. Data were submitted to discourse textual analysis. Results: the data were organized into three categories: meaning and limitations caused by pain: expression of patients; therapeutic procedures practiced by the nursing team to ease the pain and use of instruments for pain assessment. Conclusion: to promote pain relief its meaning for patients must be understood, considering the physical and emotional dimensions that surround it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: the study that aimed to identify the configuration of the concept of integrated curriculum in the speeches nurses of undergraduate nursing faculty. Methodology: case study whose interviews were conducted with seven teachers and the data were analyzed by the technique of discourse analysis. Results: the concept of integrated curriculum related to the differences between traditional and integrated curricula, the organization spiral of the contents, the teaching-service integration and its relation to the work in the National Health System. Conclusions: there is a contribution to the expansion of the discussions on the integrated curriculum and its potential for the formation of the nurse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: the study aimed to analyze the perception of chronic renal patients across the arteriovenous fistula implanted in your body; describe the emotions and feelings caused by the implementation of arteriovenous fistula; and identify self-care for its preservation. Methodology: exploratory study whose data were collected with 10 participants in October 2011 and used the Discourse of the Collective Subject technique being used to analyze the data. Results: the data revealed in patients an unveiling of the self against the fistula, and a fistula veiling from me, emerging situations of physical, emotional and mental disorders, overcome mostly by bonds of life and hope throughout the treatment. Conclusion: it is necessary that the nurse has expertise and knowledge of aspects to take into consideration the feelings and needs of such patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is aimed at analyzing some intrinsic elements in the transgender experience in order to reflect on the possibility of depathologization and the recognition of the trans-autonomy. From the historical analyses of the constitution of the sexual discourse, it can be perceived that the cisgender norm, culminated with the establishment of the psychiatric knowledge and, consequently, with the pathologization of some behavioral experiences. In this perspective, although the association between the diagnosis of the transsexuality has made viable the institutionalization of the debate and the health access; we must problematize the complexity involved in understanding the trans experience as a disease and the non-recognition of the trans-autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]