Objetiva-se, com este trabalho, possibilitar um olhar retrospectivo do papel profissional do enfermeiro no Sistema Único de Saúde brasileiro, bem como compreender o significado de sua prática social neste campo de discussões e significações teórico-práticas. Utilizou-se como referencial metodológico a Grounded Theory e como técnica de coleta de dados a entrevista, realizada entre maio a dezembro de 2007, com 35 profissionais da saúde e outros. A codificação e análise dos dados evidenciaram que o Sistema Único de Saúde e, de modo especial a Estratégia Saúde da Família, podem/devem ser considerados estratégias facilitadoras e estimuladoras do processo de ampliação e consolidação do cuidado de enfermagem como prática social empreendedora, à medida que sinalizam para uma nova abordagem de intervenção comunitária, pela valorização do ser humano como um ser singular e multidimensional, inserido em seu contexto real e concreto.

A pesquisa-ação é um tipo de pesquisa interpretativa que abarca um processo metodológico empírico. Compreende a identificação do problema dentro de um contexto social e/ou institucional, o levantamento de dados relativos ao problema, à análise e significação dos dados levantados pelos participantes, a identificação da necessidade de mudança, o levantamento de possíveis soluções e por fim, a intervenção e/ou ação propriamente dita no sentido de aliar pesquisa e ação, simultaneamente. Face a pouca utilização dessa metodologia nas práticas de saúde, esse estudo tem por objetivo refletir e apresentar a pesquisa-ação enquanto uma importante ferramenta metodológico-gerencial capaz de aliar teoria e prática por meio de uma ação que visa a transformação de uma determinada realidade.

Nursing is a specific field of knowledge and social practice that has been consolidated and strengthened as science. In Brazil, it has been developed due to the increase and qualification of strict sense post-graduate programs. This study aims to present a historical review of the strict sense post-graduate nursing courses in Brazil and to reflect on their evolution, progress, challenges and future perspectives. It explores the creation of strict sense post-graduate courses, highlighting the movement to build a culture of academic and professional post-graduation in nursing. The historical path of their consolidation, expansion, conquest of excellence and international visibility over four decades, and the challenges and future perspectives are showed. It is found that the post-graduate programs in the field has contributed to the advancement and consolidation of scientific, technological knowledge and innovation in nursing and health care, having as philosophy the respect for diversity and the free exchange of ideas, the improvement of quality of life and health, and the effectiveness of citizenship.

This is an exploratory descriptive study with qualitative approach in order to identify factors that interfere in the process of dealing with violence against women. We conducted interviews with representatives of 15 departments participating in the Network of Care for People Experiencing Violence in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Data were organized on the basis of thematic analysis of Bardin. The study showed that intersectoral coordination and care services are provided by the factors that interfere in the fight against violence against women. Both elements are related to strengthening the network of care for women victims of violence. The study points out the need to know the powers of other institutions and reaffirms the importance of coordination between them. It also provides the elements that guide the development of coordinated policies and actions to facilitate the process of dealing with violence against women. Keywords: Violence against Women; Domestic Violence; Health Care; Intersectoral Action; Nursing. Paulo Ricardo de Macedo Menezes

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The meaning of care to brain dead potential donors involves understanding the complexity of this patient who can save somebody's life through organ donation.

Objective: To demonstrate in the national and international literature the concept and typologies of entrepreneurship in Nursing. Method: Integrative review in six databases, with the descriptors entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurialism, intrapreneurial, iniciativa empresarial, contrato de risco, nursing, nurse, nurses, enfermagem and enfermeira, making a final sample of 31 articles. Results: The concept of entrepreneurship in Nursing is related to personal and professional characteristics, such as autonomy, independence, flexibility, innovation, proactivity, self-confidence and responsibility. The typologies found were: social and business entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is a mechanism of social mobilization and transformation, entrepreneurship is one in which nurses are autonomous professionally and intrapreneurship relates to corporate entrepreneurs. Conclusion: Entrepreneurship can increase the visibility of the profession and foster the creation of new spaces for nurses.

We aimed to present the educational booklet as a geronto-technological product for caring for ostomized seniors from a complexity perspective. This was accomplished in the second semester of 2007 in a hospital in the south of Brazil. The data were collected through interviews and presented in the form of an educational booklet. The booklet was validated by ostomized seniors and by a nurse who had been working with these elderly patients. The booklet was presented as a geronto-technology able to help ostomized seniors and their families understand the rights of ostomized people; concepts and types of stomas; care of ostomy; and the importance of the family and the support group for care. In conclusion, the educational booklet is presented as a health promotion tool which makes the health educative process easier.