[The effect of anxiety on the patient's cognition in the postoperative period]. / A influência da ansiedade na resposta do paciente no período pós-operatório.

The man confronting surgery and anesthesia, has hormonal alterations provoked by the anxiety, modulated by the cognitive evaluation done in the person that faces this situation and were accompanied by perceptible physiologic alterations. The goals of this study were to verify the influence of trate-anxiety and state-anxiety in psychobiological manifestation of patient in immediate post-operative period. The data were collected using trate and state anxiety inventary, two questionnaires to evaluate clinical conditions of 33 surgical patients. The data were collected in immediate pre-operative and post-operative periods. The results showed a significative correlation between trate and state anxiety in pre-operative period. There was no significative correlation among state anxiety in pre-operative period and clinical conditions in post-operative period. As conclusion, the correlation was no significative among trate anxiety, state anxiety and psychobiological manifestations in post-operative period.

[Hospital infections in Brazil. Government actions for their control as expressions of social politics in the health area]. / Infecções hospitalares no Brasil. Ações governamentais para o seu controle enquanto expressão de políticas sociais na área de saúde.

The authors study the hospital infections evolution em Brasil and the demands for its control until its establishment by governmental actions. For a better understanding and analysis of the social actors' dispute process, their needs and interests and the relation with the governmental sector to the establishment of a certain state politics, a theoretical reference that enabled to elaborate the whole of social structure elements was searched. This theoretical reference should also take the filled of the relation between Society, State, Actors and Social Politics as its main question. In order to allude to these specific actions and its intervention range, it was necessary to make a distinction between the state politics modalities and the implementation responsibilities. Based on empirical material, it was possible to trace these demands, conforming on technological-assistencial models thorough the working process indicators. Other empirical categories levels was demanded to approach to the theoretical reference: specific conjectures, welfare medical assistance, the clinical intervention model and the quality movement. All the time, the analysis of the demands and the established project aimed the relation between the instruments and their purposes with themselves and with the health general politics, showing its implications.

[The preparation of the undergraduate nurse to work on a hospital infection control committee (HICC)]. / Preparo do graduando de enfermagem para atuar na comissão de controle de infecção hospitalar (CCIH).

The goal this study is to verify how is the preparation of nursing student during undergraduate course in Brasil in order to work as a member of Hospital Infection Control Committee (HICC). The results demonstrated that this teaching is assistematic and not planned. The authors propose a teaching recommendation on nurse's practice job in the HICC.

[Perioperative nursing care--a conceptual model]. / "Assistência de enfermagem perioperatória--um modelo conceitual".

This study shows a proposed conceptual model of perioperative nursing care. This model has been used during the teaching-learning process of students in the operating room course of the School of Nursing State of University of São Paulo. The development of perioperative nursing care in the "University Hospital" is based in this model and it is in the implementation phase as an activity of "Assistance-in-Teaching Program". The model demonstrates the philosophical concepts, conclusions and its performance.