[The nursing notes in a psychiatric emergency]. / Estudo das anotações de enfermagem em uma emergência psiquiátrica.

The present study, realized in a psychiatric emergency service, discusses the evaluation of nursing notes as one of the aspects which reflect the quality of nursing care. Analysing the results, we found that the note is commonly make by personnel less qualified of the nursing staff. By the analysis of their contents, we found that these notes, made this way, have made little contributions to evaluate the state of the patient. We also verified that it is necessary to train the auxiliary nursing personnel, not only in behalf of the notes, but also for the complete care of the mentally ill in emergency situations.

[Knowledge of the motives that lead a woman from Vargem Grande Paulista to undergo a Papanicolaou smear--I]. / Conhecimento dos motivos que levaram a mulher de Vargem Grande Paulista a realizar o Papanicolau--parte I.

In this first approach the authors discusses the state of the Program for Integral Assistance por Woman's Health in São Paulo and emphasize the deficit of information on social epidemiology of women's behaviors related to health practices. They focus on the preventive Pap smear and associate the motives that yeld women of Vargem Grande Paulista to have it made. They analyse this knowledge from criterian proposed by KULBOK for posteriory apply it in practice.