The objective of this study is trying to reveal the reactions of healthy childrens facing their brothers oncologic illness trought their mothers perception. To collecting the data surveyng descriptive study with qualitative characteristics was realized. An interview with 8 mothers and the informations about their 13 children analysis allow us to know the reaction of these children facing their brothers diagnost...
This exploratory descriptive study with a qualitative approach addresses the father-child relationship upon the pediatric hospitalization. The collected data, by means of semi-structured interview and field diary, at the Pediatrics Unit of a hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, over the period of December 2002 to April 2003. The data allowed to analyze the experiences and feelings of the father who takes care for ...
Focusing on the sanitary visitors, a review of the history of nursing in Rio Grande do Sul is carried out. Aspects related to the organization of health assistance services, the beginning of Public Health Nursing, the development of the course for sanitary visitors, its officialization and extinction are considered.; É feita uma revisão da história da Enfermagem no Rio Grande do Sul, tendo como enfoque as visit...
Childhood is a period of great importance during which the children´s potentiality for growth and development are flourishing, regarding either biological, psycho-social or cognitive aspects. Aiming at attending to the global needs of the children and being aware of the Nursing Staff of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre has been carrying on a program of stimulus to th...
This article intends to describe the opinion of students about the introduction of the computer as instructional recourse on nursing education. It`s a qualitative work, where it was used the half-structured interview. The subjects was students of the 8° semester of the course of graduation, following the discipline “ Enfermagem em saúde comunitária I” (Nursing on comunitary health) and the dies were working thr...