[Estimating nursing staff at a specialized liver transplantation unit: comparison between actual and anticipated situations]. / Dimensionamento de pessoal de enfermagem em uma unidade especializada em transplante de fígado: comparação do real com o preconizado.

The study was developed in a surgical clinic of a public-university hospital where, among the offered therapeutic modalities, they are accomplished, also, liver transplants. In that clinic they are interned patient that need caring of nursing of different complexities, from the intermediate from to the intensive ones. The objective was to compare the staff nursing existence in the unit for the installment of nursing attendance with the preconized for the Resolution COFEN no. 189/96. It's conclude that the existent staff nursing respects the preconized for this Resolution.

[A system of patient classification: construction and validation of an instrument]. / Sistema de classificação de pacientes: Construção e validação de um instrumento.

This study had in its aim the construction and the validation of a patient classification instrument which has been based on the patient's individual necessities that require the nursing care. It was considered in the instrument 13 critical indicators: Mental State and Level of Consciousness. Breathing, Vital Signs, Nutrition and Hydration, Movement, Locomotion, Corporeal Hygiene, Eliminations, Therapy, Health Teaching, Behavior, Communication and Skin Integrety. Each one of these indicators has a 1 to 5 gradation denoting an increasing level in the nursing care complexity. The patient is classified in all the indicators in one of the five levels, in the option that better describes his/her situation. The content validation of the instrument was done by the Delphi Technique application through 2 rounds. A team of 15 nursing experts who attend patients or teach in the Medical School in São José do Rio Preto were participants in this research. The obtained results have showed the experts' agreement concerned to: the maintenance of the 13 critical indicators in the instrument; property and intelligibility of the critical indicator contents and the presence of an increasing level in the nursing care complexity.

[Teaching of nursing administration: the nurses' experience]. / O ensino da administração em enfermagem: percepção diante da vivência profissional.

The purpose of this study was to disclose the nurses comprehension about the Nursing Administration discipline taught in the Nursing graduation course of the Nursing School of São Paulo University. We have followed the phenomenology as the methodological way, and MARTINS; BICUDO were taken as the basic authors and main axis of the research. Being guided by this referencial, we have done this study together with eight nurses and we could do a description and comprehension speeches trying to bring out the meaning of what was understood about their phenomenon studied. From the phenomenological analysis of the nurses' reports appeared the possibilities an limits of the teaching of this discipline.

[Absenteeism in the nursing team]. / Estudo das ausências da equipe de enfermagem.

The absence of elements of nursing staff jeopardizes the work organization causing overload on this staff and reduction of quality on the nursing assistance. The present study characterizes the type and distribution of absences of the nursing staff in a general far-reaching hospital, purposing a Technical Safety Rate to cover the absences from the reality investigated. Eight types of absences were studied between foreseen or non-foreseen. The highest number of absence types found were those ones referred to the foreseen absences. In sequence we found maternity leave representing the highest number of non-foreseen absences.

[The significance of nursing administration as seen by graduates. II]. / O significado da administração aplicada à enfermagem segundo a opinião de graduandas: parte II.

The objective of this study was to know the opinions about the significance, felt by the students of the Nursing School of the University of São Paulo, at the end of the theoretical part of the course of administration applied to nursing practice. Therefore the opinion of 30 students at 8th semester of the Nursing School has been collected. The results demonstrated that the students understood, the administration applied to nursing practice, as an instrument for the nurses work and to increase the quality of assistance, as well as for the development of the nursing staff and, the administrative functions as a role which has to be developed in the nursing professional practice.

[The importance of administration applied to nursing practice according to the opinions of nursing graduates]. / O significado da administração aplicada à enfermagem segundo a opinião de graduandas.

The objective of this study was to know the opinions that the students have, when they begin the course of Administration applied of Nursing. The results indicated that the students considered administration a manner how the nurses are organizing their works and that nursing activity administration is to conciliate the assistance with the bureaucratic service.