[The nurse's work in mental health services of the public network of Campinas-SP]. / O trabalho do enfermeiro nos equipamentos de saúde mental da rede pública de Campinas-SP.

This work aimed at verifying the field of performance of nurses in the mental health services in the city of Campinas-SP as well as at analyzing their work relations with other members of the multi-professional staff as an attempt to observe the nexuses established between such professionals' practice and the service's conception concerning team work. A qualitative and descriptive investigation was conducted which used the case report as a research methodology. It was observed that nurses take different roles according to the organization of the team's work process and that the recognition of such context is essential for nursing professionals to develop their work critically and to keep high quality standards.

[Elements making up the identity of the nurse in descriptions expressed by graduating students]. / Elementos constituintes da identidade de enfermeiro no discurso de graduandos.

Identity is usually conceived by choosing a series of characteristics which should be truly considered a person's own; it searches to fulfill needs that other way would stop individuals to build their own destinies. We aimed to apprehend the nurse's identity built by a group of Nursing undergraduate students. It was used a qualitative approach. "Care" was the word mostly used by the students while trying to explain what means to be a nurse. However, few of them could define the meaning of this care. From the students' speeches, we verified that the nurse is very related to the practical work, despite the fact that they affirm it to be an intellectual work. Another point discussed in this article is that the students do not mention the professors influence while building their perception of nurses.

[Mental suffering of nurses who care for cancer patients]. / O sofrimento psíquico dos enfermeiros que lidam com pacientes oncológicos.

In this qualitative study, four nurses of a teaching hospital in the city of Campinas, São Paulo-Brazil, all of them working with oncological patients were interviewed in order to verify the situation that most caused mental suffering in the day by day with these patients. Data collection were performed as proposed by the ethnographic approach and the non-directive interview and the direct observation was employed. The contain analysis has been utilized to the data analysis. The results have shown that many situations of the relationship nurses-oncological patients cause mental suffering in that professional. Those situations are tied to the work of the nurses, to the kind of patient treated by those professionals and to the kind of sickness presented by the patient. That study has shown that, many times, the nurses utilize defense mechanisms against that mental suffering. This work aims to contribute to the knowledge of the subject and therefore be itself a base in which one could elaborate measures that can make these problems that occur with the nurses that work in the Oncology area lighter. With that study to contribute to the comprehension of the challenge that the cancer, sickness that make professional and population frightened, is.