[Nursing professionals and quality of life: an approach based on the dimensions proposed by Flanagan]. / O profissional de enfermagem e a qualidade de vida: uma abordagem fundamentada nas dimensões propostas por Flanagan.

The present qualitative and quantitative study had the purposes to verify the meaning of quality of life to nursing professionals using Flanagan's Scale, to identify the quality of life dimensions that are most valued by those professionals and to explore the relations between the quality of life scores obtained by the professionals working at the STD/AIDS unit and at the neonatal ICU. The two groups showed similar results with respect to the meanings and the most valued dimension of quality of life. The total scores presented a positive evaluation of quality of life by the groups, although they showed a difference in the level of quality of life experienced by the two nursing teams.

[Nursing in the interdisciplinary gerontology team]. / A enfermagem no grupo interdisciplinar de gerontologia.

This paper reports a working experience in an interdisciplinary team of the area of gerontology at the UFSC University Hospital. It describer, in detail, the nursing participation in its proper functions and at those which are common to all the participants. It shows the nurses acting along the work group guidelines, added of Horta's framework (human need theory) and the WEED model for the patient's individual chart, a method already adopted by the hospital. It presents the common characteristics of aged clients seen as outpatients and as inpatients, their most affected basic needs, and the kind of nursing care they receive. Finally, it considers the future perspectives on conducting this interdisciplinary work.