[Corporality in an orthopedics clinic scenario]. / Corporeidade no cenário da clínica ortopédica.

The study features the author's lived experience of phenomenological enlightenment in which she pursued to operate Polak's (1996) concepts of Nursing and Care, which have corporality as a reference. It describes the living experiences of four clients hospitalized in an Orthopedics and Trauma Unit of an School Hospital of Curitiba's metropolitan area, according to Polak's caring process moments, which are: perception; discovery and dialogue; building of new knowledge; and implementation of caring actions. It was noticed that the concepts are feasible on practical situations.

[20 years of nursing courses at the Federal University of Parana and the careers of its graduates]. / Os vinte anos do curso de enfermagem na universidade federal do paraná e a trajetória de seus egressos.

This is a retrospective research with nurses graduated from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). A brief review of records such as meetings minutes, reports, and interviews documented the facts that built nursing from 1974 to 1994 at UFPR. The program graduated 467 nurses, to whom a questionnaire, containing open and closed questions, was sent. The sample was constituted of 62 graduates who answered the questionnaire. Qualitative and quantitative outcomes are presented in tables, providing support to curriculum changes and offering an alert to the need of conceptual clarification regarding teaching, practice and nursing research.