[Licensure in nursing: a near future prospect]. / La licenciatura en enfermería. Un futuro próximo al alcance de la mano.

The Spanish Association of Education in Nursing convoked an important meeting in Seville, this past March, to clarify ideas and generate constructive debate regarding the future of a licentiate degree in Nursing in our country. Maria Durán, Rosemaría Alberdi, José A. Martos and Jesús Sanz Villorejo attended this meeting. Over the course of the ensuing debate, the whole evolutionary process up to the present time was explained and the conferees expressed the need to form a consensus among all the institutions involved in the Spanish nursing profession.

[Stethoscopes]. / Fonendoscopio.

Traditionally, a phonendoscope has been an instrument by which health professionals have been identified since it has been an absolutely necessary tool through which health professionals carried out a mediate auscultation and could isolate the sounds produced by the different organs of the body. This health technology, tools and instruments article analyzes the origins, usefulness, component parts, and special characteristics of the various types of phonendoscopes available in the market while at the same time states the proper way to use a phonendoscope by explaining how to manipulate it and the basic rules for keeping it clean and caring for it.