[Perception of blockage or facilitation of communication: an experiment]. / Percepção de bloqueio/facilitação de comunicação: um experimento.

Based on the reference work of FORREST (1983), we conducted an experiment in order to determine how interviewees (6th semester nursing undergraduate course) perceive a dialogue, taking into consideration 12 items of evaluation (opening, interest, changing subject, directed questions, disapproval of the subject, tranquility, tension, counseling, recognizing feelings, reflection about the topics, approval, and flight from the topics). Treatment consisted of interviews with different proportions of categories of facilitating (F) and blocking (B) communication: Group A-55% F category and 45% B category; Group B-75% B category and 25% F category. There was no statistical difference between groups in terms of any of the proposed evaluation items. We emphasize the fact that the interviewer was known by interviewees. The topic was easy to approach and the level of relationship was of the horizontal type.

[Posture taken by members of the nursing staff during blood collection, intravenous drug administration and serotherapy]. / Postura corporal adotada pelos membros da equipe de enfermagem durante procedimentos de colheita de sangue, administração de medicação endovenosa e soroterapia.

The members of the Nursing Team are submitted, many times, to posture attacks either due to the own requirement of the action or the utilization of improper corporeal posture during its execution. The present study aims at inquiring the type, length, frequency and posture changes adopted by the members of the Nursing Team during the execution of blood collection techniques, administering of intravenous medication and serotherapy. Through direct observation were recorded 10 activities corresponding to each one of the mentioned techniques, realized in attendance of patients from a University Hospital internment unit. The results evidenced that blood collection activity was 50, 35% effectuated in the inclined standing position, followed by the standing straight position, 49, 64%. Intravenous medication administering was executed with frequent adoption of the standing straight posture, 51, 09% (in special with the arm in frontal expansion), 45, 74% in the inclined standing position and 3, 15% seated. Serotherapy technique was executed with predominant adoption of standing position (86, 88%) in special with the arms in frontal expansion and 13, 11% in the inclined standing position. The unnecessary adoption, many times, of inclined standing posture indicates that Nursing personnel have been making possible the happening of spinal column attacks mainly due to the bad utilization of corporeal mechanic. The authors suggest more attention to these aspects, mainly at Nursing courses.