O brinquedo vem se constituindo em tema de pesquisa para profissionais de diferentes categorias, especialmente, nas áreas da saúde e educação. Os enfermeiros contribuem de forma significativa para a produção científica sobre o assunto, e os primeiros registros de que se tem notícia sobre a importância do brincar para a criança são de autoria de Florence Nightingale(). Na segunda edição de seu livro “Notas sobre enfermagem”, Florence enfatiza que a brincadeira é indispensável para a recuperação adequada da criança frente […]

Abstract The objective of this study was to understand the experience of undergraduate nursing students who used the toy in the care of hospitalized children. It is a phenomenological study, supported by the theoretical and methodological Martin Heidegger, with 10 students who performed activities at the Hospital of Universidade Estadual de Campinas – UNICAMP. The interviews were recorded from the following question: “Tell me how it was for you to use the toy in the care of hospitalized children.” The […]

Abstract This is a descriptive qualitative approach research based on the Symbolic Interactionism and in the theoretical concept of Michel Maffesoli, which the objective is to understand the meanings of a nursing team in a pediatric internation unit and his daily. It was used as a strategy for data collection two workshops with eleven members of the nursing team and the Convergent Care Research was used for the data analysis. The results show an ambiguity of feelings of the team […]

Abstract Objective: Analyze the work process of the Health Strategy of the Family-HSF male nurses during the care to the postpartum woman and the newborn; to characterize HSF male nurses profile the qualification needs. Methods: The study is of exploratory-descriptive type, with quantitative approach, accomplished in the municipal district of Sobral – Ceará, in the period of April to June, 2007, with 33 male nurses of the HSF. Results: The principal results: We saw that 100% observe and assess the […]

Abstract The principal aim of this article is to review ethical considerations related to the nursing care of children and their families. The literature and ethical standards that are reviewed are drawn primarily from a North American perspective. This provides Brazilian nursing readers with an opportunity to reflect on the merits and limitations of drawing on North American experience, and consider future directions for the ethical development of pediatric nursing in Brazil. The article begins with a description of the […]

Abstract The aim of this report is to describe the Nursing undergraduate students experience, at the Federal University of São Carlos, in São Paulo, Brazil, regarding their intervention with educators, during one semester, in the context of the discipline of Health Care of Children and Adolescents, at a children’s education unit in a city in the interior of São Paulo, which takes care for 130 children aged 0 to 5 years. The dynamic adopted for the activity was dialogic with […]