INTRODUÇÃO Neste editorial, gostaria de trazer algumas questões que refletem um olhar da enfermagem sobre o cenário da saúde, especialmente em sua interface com o cuidar da criança e do adolescente. Embora o ato de cuidar seja da própria natureza humana, as concepções acerca do cuidar, de acordo com Neves (2000), tiveram origem tanto na reflexão das enfermeiras, a partir de suas crenças pessoais e profissionais, como de suas experiências no convívio com clientes e profissionais da área da saúde […]

Abstract This investigation had the objective to characterize the occurrence of respiratory diseases in day-care centers and to explore associations with delivery care. It was carried through in two teaching day-care centers, placed in the same region of the city of Sao Paulo, which attends the same population. The data on the children up to 5 years that had attended the day-care centers in 2003 were gathered in children’s records and others documentation available in these places, and compared with […]

Abstract The study has an objectives to identify knowledge and practices of day-care centers workers relative to the prevention, early detection and management of respiratory illnesses in children. Fourteen workers from teaching daycare centers were interviewed and 16 from council daycare centers in the city of Sao Paulo, and the data were comparative analysed through statistical tests. A results pointed out that workers from teaching daycare centers recognized several disorders, mentioned pollution and transmission as more important causes, fever and […]

Abstract This is a descriptive study aiming to identify health impairment in children with ages ranging from one to three years during their stay in an infantile educational school. Data were collected in April 2003, in a day care center with 65 children enrolled full time, in the state of Sao Paulo. 40 health events occurred, of which 55% accidents and 45% other type of event..

Abstract The research was developed by nurse students from the first semester of Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (EEAN.UFRJ) enrolled in a Interdepartamental Curricula Program called PCI-I. That first training experience in practical field was implemented with school age children among six and fifteen years old, who were subscripted of second and fourth grade of elementary school named Colégio de Aplicação, Instituto Superior de Educação do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro city. […]

Abstract Merleau-Ponty has been contributing significantly to the study about nuances of nursing care for children and adolescents, especially on pediatric nursing when intend to unmask the meaning of being health and becoming illness, and the place of healthful in their lives, even if there is a cancer disease. So, this study was developed to present the contribution of this theorist to pediatric nursing research, methodizing it on the analysis of an interpretative qualitative study that brings the meanings of […]

Abstract This article, trough theory perceptions, brings the discussion about violence into the health field as a strategic to inform, to become sensible, to make the professionals co-responsible to this area to the prevention and appropriate facility to children and adolescents that are victims of violence. This paper has a purpose to contribute to the reflexion about the characteristics of adolescents, its vulnerability and the risk factors to the violence; to characterize the different kinds of violence committed against children […]

Abstract While professional from industrial areas had started to know that errors can be preventable events, in the health system some continue to believe that these events are characterized as isolated. However, an increasing number of scientific and epidemiological data make it clear to the scientific community and healthcare professionals that errors are present in the healthcare system and that patient safety is a global problem. Prevention systems must be developed to improve results. This study had the aim of […]