The experience of repeated fatherhood during adolescence.

OBJECTIVE: to examine how adolescent fathers experience recurring parenthood. DESIGN: qualitative study with a social phenomenological focus. PARTICIPANTS: five fathers between 16 and 19 years of age, each with two children. FINDINGS: the participants perceived themselves as mature, responsible, worried about the care and education of their children, and desiring a secure future life. These factors made them seek employment, their own home, marital stability, construction of a family and return to school. They experienced the ambivalence of desiring one reality and living another, given that, as adolescent parents, they regretted the loss of their freedom. KEY CONCLUSIONS: recurring parenthood in adolescence is a complex phenomenon, with many possible perceptions. The diverse experiences depend on the social context that is defined by the wishes, plans, possibilities and meanings of each distinct social class. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: care delivery to these adolescents should consider not only theoretical and chronobiological aspects, but also the experiences of these young people and the psychosocial and cultural factors involved in their fatherhood.

[Clinical experience of nursing students: transition of identities]. / Estágio curricular em enfermagem: transição de identidades.

The purpose of this article is to describe nursing students clinical experience in the Maternal-Child and Psychiatric Nursing Department of the School of Nursing of the University of São Paulo (EEUSP). This activity has been implemented since 1996, not only to follow the demands of the Minimum Curriculum in Nursing, but also to give consistency to one of the purposes of the new curriculum of the EEUSP. This new purpose is concentrates on the facilitation of the transition process from being a student to being professional. The authors describe the experience of those involved in the process-Undergraduate student, faculty members and nurses making some considerations, regarding the results that demonstrate development of autonomy and responsibility in the future professional.

[The background of graduating nursing students for the care of women in a low income community. A phenomenological approach]. / A vivência de alunos de graduação em enfermagem na assistência à saúde da mulher em uma comunidade de baixa renda--uma abordagem fenomenológica.

Our trajectory in this study has addressed to the comprehension of experience which undergraduate students in the Nursing School of USP. This work has been developed in a low income community of São Paulo city. We've got descriptions of the students and the data were discussed following the steps of phenomenological assay. We've identified five themes: rewarding experience, stimulant and necessary; experience of life, personal growth and disrupting with prejudice; activity which permits to know the other side of assistance; important and valuable experience; practice activity which makes possible the acquired knowledge sedimentation theoretically. The graduation students experience was satisfactory and it was favorable to the teaching-learning process.

[Reflections on nursing faculty members in a university nursing school]. / Reflexões sobre a docência de enfermagem em uma universidade pública.

This article is about the discussion on the faculty member's role, who are working in a Nursing School of a Public University, attempting to suggest integration strategies to teach and research about the nursing and the care of people, and consequently the benefits to the teachers, to the nursing school and to the nursing profession.

[Married couples' experiences at a human reproduction center]. / Experiências de casais que procuram o centro de reprodução humana.

The present study was intended to understand the feeling demonstrated by married couples seeking a Human Reproduction Center for infertility evaluation. Intending to understand the way Assisted Reproduction is experienced from the couple's perspective, a phenomenological approach was adopted and the directing question was: "How do you feel using the Assisted Reproduction as a treatment?"

[Qualitative approach: a contribution to nursing]. / Abordagens qualitativas: sua contribuição para a enfermagem.

This paper focus on some characteristics of the qualitative methodology. Some of these methods are explored such as: participatory research, phenomenology, grounded theory and ethnography critical theory Perspectives of their utilization in nursing research are examined.

[The profile of nursing teachers in undergraduate courses in greater São Paulo]. / Caracterização de enfermeiros docentes em cursos de graduação da Grande São Paulo.

This paper searches to identify some aspects of the profile of the undergraduate nursing faculty members and to detect the differences and similarities among the group of teachers of public and private schools. A sample of 120 faculty members of five schools was studied in August of 1990 using a questionnaire. The data was analysed according to the following categories: demographic data, social economical status, university stand, professional development and perspectives. The results showed that there are more similarities than differences within this faculty members, once they belong to the an homogeneous social, economical and cultural class with a few exceptions.

[The knowledge of nurses' aides of the care given to the premature newborn infant]. / Conhecimento da atendente de enfermagem sobre alguns cuidados prestados ao recém-nascido prematuro.

The objective of this study is to verify the knowledge nursing aides, working nights in premature nurseries have of physical characteristics of premature newborns and on some procedures done to them, either experiencing complications or not. The population of this study was of 33 nursing aids of 12 hospitals of Grande São Paulo. The data were obtained, through interview using a structured form. Eclectic criteria was used to evaluate the knowledge of the nursing aids, and classified in the categories of "very good", "good", "regular", and "poor". Through the data obtained, we verified that the nursing aids have knowledge classified as "good" in relation to physical characteristics of the premature newborn and also to the nursing care give to them, when not experiencing complications.