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The study describes a construction of an attitude measurement tool, the Likert Scale, about the performance evaluation process used by the Nursing Department of the University Hospital at University of São Paulo, related to the nurse's beliefs, feelings and ability. The test's results of confidence, Cronbach Alpha and Spearman-Brown Correlation, showed that the tool is confident and appropriate for application in other populations.

This study aimed to understand the meaning of teamwork of rehabilitation professionals in craniofacial anomalie. It was carried out a phenomenological analysis for contemplating the understanding and interpretation of the sense considering the subject. Twelve professionals from different areas were interviewed, guided to the subject: What does work in a team on the rehabilitation of craniofacial anomalies mean to you? These themes were brought up: training for the task, difficulty in working with a team, relationship with patient and family, work conditions and the professional insertion in the team. The analysis sought to reflect the phenomenon engendering convergences and divergences to express the differences and continuous learning.

The aim of this study was to realize a diagnostic situational about the evaluation process of the nursing team performance of USP Hospital. Based in two guiding questions, it was carried out 9 interviews with nurses of this hospital. These interviews were analyzed according Analyze of Contend. The most frequent themes were: The meaning of evaluation; the feelings; the difficulties and facilities concerning the instrument and the capacitacion. This experience brought about many feelings, as well as aspects that either favor or make the execution of the evaluation difficult, showing the principal points of vulnerability of the process and, therefore, deserving better attention and short-term intervention.

This exploratory, document-based study aimed to identify the competences described in the outlines of the subject nursing administration basics for technical nursing courses. We studied programs from 26 schools in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Results showed that the general and specific competences of practical nurses are related to knowing how to do (59% and 54%), learning to know (34% and 45%) and knowing how to be (7% and 1%). This shows that there is still a prevalence of knowing how to do in professional education, and that there is a trend to have scientific knowledge as the foundation and tool for this purpose.

We studied the distribution of GSTM1 phenotypes in 611 individuals from an ethnically mixed sample of the Brazilian population who died from various causes. No influence of age, gender, or ethnicity was detected on the phenotypic distribution. In a sub-sample of 66 alcoholic individuals compared with 399 non-alcoholics there was almost a doubling of the odds ratio for GSTM1(0) individuals in the alcoholic category. The incidence of hepatopathies was higher in this group as well, and we observed a significant association of the null phenotype with cirrhosis. An excess of null phenotypes (374/611) was observed, and the allelic distribution was: GSTM1*A = 0.168, *B = 0.089, and *0 (null) = 0.743., (Copyright 2003 Wiley-Liss, Inc.)

The aim of this study was to check if the evaluators and evaluated follow the operational criterion that direct the nursing staffs evaluation of HU; to the identify the graduation conferred to obrigatory and optional forecasters by evaluators and evaluated; to identify the optional forecaster chosen by evaluators and evaluated and prepare the researches to a change at the process of nursing staff's evaluation of HU. The results showed that different functional categories had similar points of view; there were high level of agreement between them; both values attribution as optional forecaster selection. It's demonstrated that there's coherence at the process of nursing staff's performance evaluation, the evaluators shaves with evaluated the same pre-supposition about the purpose and importance of the forecasters insert in the instrument of performance evaluation.

The purpose of this study was to understand the life of nurses in assisting the porter of cleft lip and palate In order to so we decided for a qualitative approach in the methodology of phenomenology. We interviewed nine subjects who took part of this study and their interviews were guided by this question: "How is it like to watch over/take care of patients with cleft lip and or palate?", The themes that emerged revealed the essence of the phenomenon in the nurse's perspective searching with the careful meanings to contribute to the improvement of assistance quality, thus offering subsidies to the development of a continuous educational program to the nursing team (staff).

The purpose of this study was to disclose the nurses comprehension about the Nursing Administration discipline taught in the Nursing graduation course of the Nursing School of São Paulo University. We have followed the phenomenology as the methodological way, and MARTINS; BICUDO were taken as the basic authors and main axis of the research. Being guided by this referencial, we have done this study together with eight nurses and we could do a description and comprehension speeches trying to bring out the meaning of what was understood about their phenomenon studied. From the phenomenological analysis of the nurses' reports appeared the possibilities an limits of the teaching of this discipline.

Teaching Administration Nursing Service we've been worried about several variables of the instructive process that affect the teachers and the students, as advantage, attitudes, thinking and acting manner, values, expectations, previous experiences, among some. These uneasiness take us to check the educational practice experience, considering the teaching's ability. In this study, we intend to reveal the teacher's understanding about the ability to teach nursing throw the education's reality recognition. So, we adopted a quality methodology that allow us a comprehensive analysis of the teaching's speech at a Public University in São Paulo city. According to the methodology it was possible to get back four meaning unities that allowed us to prescribe the emerging subjects; teaching's understanding about technical ability, teaching's understanding about scientific-theretical ability, teaching's understanding about pedagogical ability and the teaching identity. This study permitted us to reveal some points considered outstanding about the teacher's ability, getting it back as the result in a complex and continuous process of technical, theoretical and pedagogical training, contained in a several factors, psychological, social, ethical, economical, political and historical. We still understanding that the teacher's reflections about the teaching reality, in its totality, favouring the awareness and interfering positivly in their criticism formation. Finally there is a necessity to set up schools formation and up-dating centers and establish human political resources compatible with a renewed political of na educational action.

Purpose: To describe the cardiac findings in children with AIDS, the follow-up with treatment and the correlation between clinical and pathological features., Methods: We studied prospectively 25 children with clinical-laboratorial diagnosis of AIDS, ages between 3 months and 11 years, even those without cardiac symptoms. We classified the signs of AIDS following that of CDC-Atlanta 1994. Eight children died and it was done necropsy in six with macro and microscopic examinations., Results: Fifteen cases had already complications of AIDS and were classified as C2 and C3, 5 as B2, 3 B1 and 2 as A1. Beside the symptoms related to the disease and infections we found signs of congestive heart failure III and IV (NYHA) in 5 children, pericardial effusion in 5, (one of them had cardiac tamponade). In the electrocardiogram (EKG), 8 children had repolarization abnormalities. In 1st echocardiogram (ECHO) we found some features of dilated myocardiopathy in 8 (6 were asymptomatic) 5 of those had pericardial effusion, one child had huge amount of pericardial liquid and also increased measures of intraventricular septum and posterior wall of left ventricle by ECHO and confirmed by necropsy examination. All cases of diagnosis of myocardiopathy received treatment with captopril and 4 also received furosemide and digoxina. Even under oral treatment three of them had deterioration of heart failure but after combined anti-retroviral drugs they showed better cardiac functions. From the six necropsied cases, two had increased heart weight without myocarditis, one had toxoplasma pancarditis and other one had fibrocalcic vasculopathy., Conclusion: We found several assymptomatic cases already with decreased ventricular function. Some worsened of heart failure even under apropriate treatment and showed better cardiac index after combined anti-retroviral drugs.

The authors proposed themselves to get to know the newly admitted nurse's opinion, about the integration training done, in order to get subsidy to the evaluation and the improvement on this program.

The objective of this study was to know the opinions about the significance, felt by the students of the Nursing School of the University of São Paulo, at the end of the theoretical part of the course of administration applied to nursing practice. Therefore the opinion of 30 students at 8th semester of the Nursing School has been collected. The results demonstrated that the students understood, the administration applied to nursing practice, as an instrument for the nurses work and to increase the quality of assistance, as well as for the development of the nursing staff and, the administrative functions as a role which has to be developed in the nursing professional practice.

The objective of this study was to know the opinions that the students have, when they begin the course of Administration applied of Nursing. The results indicated that the students considered administration a manner how the nurses are organizing their works and that nursing activity administration is to conciliate the assistance with the bureaucratic service.