Expediente v.22, n. 44, 2012 da revista Ágora

The Parents Group of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) from the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) takes part on the Family Support Program of the Pediatric Nursing Service. The objective of the study is to know the…

This is a qualitative study which aims to describe the caregiving process developed by family members/caregivers of children with special needs (CRIANES) at home. For the production data we chose to use of a Creative Sensitive Method (MCS), mediated by…

Exploratory-descriptive study, qualitative, whose goal is to understand the experience of family caregivers in the practice of patient care in the home chronically dependent. The subjects consisted of the family caregivers of patients dependent on chronic, in a city of…

The HIV status of children with HIV / AIDS results in demands for particular health needs such as a follow-up on their growth and development process, as well as clinical and therapeutic care. Objective: to describe the experience of developing…

Medullar lesions, which are normally a result of car accidents, can lead to paraplegia or tetraplegia, causing serious problem in public health, with extended treatments and multiples medium and long-term complications. The aim of this article is to report the…

Nowadays the vertiginous flow of information and knowledge brought about the need for resources and tools to deal with the complexity of such data. From this perspective, we are witnessing today, the concern not only to produce knowledge, but how…

The object of this study was to rethink the masculine identity forward to fatherhood, in an attempt to seek a new definition to be a man, taking into account experiences attached to the female condition. The population of this qualitative…

O processo educativo é um instrumento primordial para entender a complexidade dos problemas ambientais e para propor e executar soluções para estas questões. A interpretação ambiental vem se consolidando como um importante procedimento educacional, possibilitando a transformação de atitudes e…

The precariousness of professional education of nurses is an issue that follows the history of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nursing since the inauguration of the first Brazilian psychiatric hospital. Since the sixties, professors were concerned regarding methodology in Psychiatric Nursing. This…