Objective: to report the experience of the development of nursing knowledge from nursing theories and points of contact with the nurse’s praxis. Method: case report on the reflections on contents addressed in the discipline offered in the Graduate Program in Nursing in a federal public university. The students presented seminars approaching the main nursing theories, generating extensive discussion and correlating them with the nurse’s practice. Review and reflection on the contents addressed. Result: two themes were defined: the training of nursing undergraduate students and the development of knowledge in relation to the concepts of nursing theories; and care models and nurses’ critical reasoning about the applicability of nursing theories. Final Consideration: the reflections produced permeated the development and acquisition of knowledge and of representative meanings of healthcare practice from the assumptions and constructs of the theories.

Objetivo: Compreender as vulnerabilidades do processo de cuidar do enfermeiro em uma Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica (UTIP). Método: Estudo qualitativo, baseado no referencial teórico da ergologia e realizado em hospital de ensino público, no período de junho de 2016 a agosto de 2017. Foi utilizada a Análise de Conteúdo de Bardin para analisar as respostas dos enfermeiros assistenciais da UTIP em entrevistas individuais a partir de duas perguntas norteadoras: “Explique o que você compreende sobre vulnerabilidade” e “Como você experiencia a vulnerabilidade no processo de cuidar do paciente internado na UTIP?” Resultados: Foram identificadas categorias e temas comuns e específicos referentes às perguntas norteadoras.  Conclusões: Constatou-se a conceituação do termo vulnerabilidade e a análise das experiências vivenciadas pelos enfermeiros de diversas maneiras pelos indivíduos, o que possibilitou sua classificação em categorias de acordo com o tema pertencente.

Objective: To describe the occurrence of infection in patients with stroke. Materials and Methods: A cohort prospective study of 143 patients admitted to a stroke unit from December / 2014 to June / 2015. Results: The mean age was 67.8 years with history of hypertension and Ischemic Stroke; the main infections were related to the respiratory (8.4%) and urinary tract (7.7%); the invasive devices used, were: peripheral venous access (95.1%) and nasoenteral tube (31.25%); the prevalent microorganisms were Escherichia coli and MRSA. Protections to occurrence of infection were related to: non-alcoholic patients and non-HIV infection carriers; non-use of urinary catheter and endotracheal intubation (p> 0.05); presence of Hemorrhagic Stroke predisposed to occurrence of urinary tract infection (p> 0.05). Conclusion: prognosis of the patient depends on the type of stroke and occurrence of infections related to health care.

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Objective: Assessing feelings of women accompanying children in a paediatric intensive care unit Materials and Methods: Data were collected from August to October 2015 by the authors from individual interviews recorded with 15 women. The instrument was structured with the identification of qualitative variables, described in absolute and relative frequencies, and a guiding question. The "corpus" of each interview was electronically transcribed, floating readings were held and statements were categorized and analysed according Analise Content.Results: 14 (93%) are biological mothers; average age 30 years; 11 (73%) have completed primary education; six (46%) have an occupation or a profession. The four themes were inferred: ambivalence of feelings and coping were related to how individuals express and deal with the hospitalized patient's situation; empathy with the health team and the structural condition of the critical environment can also generate feelings. Nursing diagnoses were formulated from the reported feelings.