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The objective was to assess the impact of an educational strategy approaching infertility assistance; and verify practices introduced into the daily work of the participants after this intervention. Research-action developed with 11 nurses from the Family Health Strategy, in Fortaleza-CE, through the reading of a brochure in a "circle of conversation." Data were collected in August and October 2010, before, immediately after and 60 days after the intervention. An increase in the levels of knowledge was noted immediately after the intervention, when all participants had a "more than good" or "very good" level of knowledge, leaving behind the "little" and "good" levels rated before the intervention; at 60 days, a "good" level of knowledge was noted again, showing a relative decrease in knowledge. There was self-recognition of the ability to introduce practices into the daily work after the intervention, confirming the positive impact thereof

Working with the development of skills in sexual and reproductive health of adolescents from the perspective of health promotion for the prevention of the precocious pregnancy is a challenge to the nurse. To attend the group on psychosocial and biological transformation, we must consider their particular demands and growth for the protagonists: nurse and adolescent. The study aims to analyze the practice of the nurse in the prevention of the precocious pregnancy in view of skills development. This is a descriptive and exploratory research, with a qualitative approach, developed in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, using the technique of the focal group, whose analysis was performed by means of discursive practices and maps of association of ideas. The results revealed that the promotion of adolescent health is worked out in the nursing consultation and adolescents groups, being this a creative, appropriate interactive space for the development of skills regarding sexuality and the prevention of precocious pregnancy.

We verified maternal age, parity, mode of delivery concurrent to tubal ligation and the contraceptive practice that preceded it; and to identify the reasons that motivated these women to have tubal ligation and tubal reconstructive surgery. This is a cross-sectional field study, carried out in a public laboratory for infertility in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, with 13 women. Data were collected through interviews from January to April, 2009. Ler foneticamente Tubal ligations were made on 25-year-old women or less, right after childbirth, mothers of two children or less, unaware of contraceptive methods and/or how to obtain them. These women alleged male carelessness with fatherhood, the lack of desire for more children and pressure from families and employers as the reasons for sterilization. For 11 of these women, the change of male companion was decisive in looking for surgical reversion, showing the continuity of the strong influence that male partners have on women's decisions on reproduction.