[The specific characteristics of the physical exam performed by the nurse]. / Características específicas do exame físico realizado pelo enfermeiro.

The purpose of this work is focused on the physical examinations made by the nurse, identifying four basic assumption originated from the performance of this procedure. It also suggests indicative guidelines of specificity to the nursing physical examinations.

[Self-examination of the breast: the identification of the knowledge, attitudes, habits and practices (KAHP) required for working out the educational proposals]. / Auto exame de mama: identificação dos conhecimentos, atitudes, habilidades e práticas (CAHP) requeridos para elaboração de propostas educativas.

The authors use the Precede Health Education Model for making social, epidemiology, educational and behavioral diagnosis for breast cancer. It helps self-exam made monthly by women from Vargem Grande Paulista--Basic Health Unit--São Paulo.

[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.

[Incentives that aid training in the nursing laboratory: the opinion of professors and students]. / Estímulos que favorecem o treinamento em laboratório de enfermagem: opinião de professores e alunos.

The authors developed a survey on a population of 5 professors and 48 students on the reasons, that can to stimulate or to disfavour the voluntary attendance of the students to practice the psychomotor ability in the nursing laboratory. The results showed positive and negative reasons expected by professors and students to evaluate nursing laboratory training.

[Education for health: the client as the subject of action]. / A educação para a saúde: o cliente como sujeito da ação.

The author make some considerations on the education for health based on the health-illness process view-point, where the significance of education is different in the traditional education and in the historical materalism context.

[Qualitative research: the systematization of the generating topics and group technics]. / A pesquisa qualitativa: sistematização de temas geradores e técnicas de grupo.

This study describes the systematization of generating themes into social representations, followed by group works with interventions that go through the stages of identification, domestication, relearning and performance redefinitions.

[The general principles of drug administration and nursing actions]. / Princípios gerais de administração de medicamentos e ações de enfermagem.

The authors analyse the responsibility of the nurse during the administration of drugs and solutions. Three aspects are approached: the ethic aspects of professional attitudes, scientific and iatrogenic.