[Macrocampaigns: alternatives to health promotion]. / Macrocampanhas: alternativas na promoção da Saúde.

To reflect about teaching and practicing nursing in public and collective health, helps to direct the teaching/learning nursing process to a health promotion alternative, involving nursing students of UFRGS with Lions Clubs, Health State Secretaries and, specially, with the population and the media, so that early detection of high blood pressure and diabetes and also health promotion could be focus on Macro-campaigns Project. The aim is to early detect high blood pressure, diabetes and to promote health, individually and collectively, in a short period of time, at places of major concentration of persons, using academic work power, clubs of service, participation of the population and the media. The method used on this investigation was of interviews, blood pressure measurement, blood sugar checking, and filling forms from spontaneous demand in shoppings malls and other sites, by two professors and 58 nursing students of UFRGS. The main aspects of the results are that 15% of the demand have high blood pressure and 9% have high level of blood sugar.

[Primary care in the community of Zero Hora: a new social approach]. / Atenção primária de enfermagem à comunidade da Vila Zero Hora: uma nova abordagem social.

The authors, after reflecting about practical nursing, directed a teach-learned nursing process towards the community on a social approach, which implicates in an effective participation of the population and the sanitary authorities. Therefore, they opt for demarcation of an action area, in order to measure the results, to create social nursing necessity, nurse/patient bond and to adapt teaching and research to social reality. The goal is to identify the basics needs of the chosen village and with them establish the priorities to plan the health and educational actions in agreement with primary nursing attention. The method used in this research was a sistematic study of the families by a application form at home. The results are: 70% of the children from zero twelve years old have respiratories problems; 13% of adults use alcohol; 30% are smokers, 60% live in bad housing and sanitary conditions; 35% are illiterate, there are an excess of insects, rodents cats and dogs.

[The integration of teaching and care in a teaching institution and in a teaching hospital of Porto Alegre: the experience of a working group]. / Integração docente-assistencial entre uma instituição de ensino e um hospital de ensino de Porto Alegre: experiência de um grupo de trabalho.

This study presents the first stage of the work developed by teachers from The School of Nursing of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and nurses from Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre in order to elaborate a Project for Teaching-Assistance Integration. The authors explain their experience in a professional group, the methodology used as well the diagnostic of the reality in those Institutions related to teaching, assistance, research and administration.