[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.

[Nursing school of the University of Sao Paulo and the Sao Paulo state health department: partners in the obstetric nursing specialization]. / Escola de Enfermagem da USP e Secretaria de Estado da Saúde de São Paulo: Parceiras na especialização em enfermagem obstétrica.

The School of Nursing at the University of São Paulo and the São Paulo State Health Department established a proposal to qualify nurses by a Specialization Program in Midwifery, which purposes were: to analyse the midwifery care problems in the context of the family and the National Health System; to qualify the nurse to give care to the woman in the pregnancy, delivery and postpartum, on clinical, epidemiological and humanistic bases; to qualify the nurse to delivery babies. The Program was concluded by 19 students, whom delivered the rate of 35 childbirth/nurse.

[Obstetric nurses: the social inheritance of midwives and nurses]. / Enfermeira obstetra: herança de parteira e herança de enfermeira.

There are differences in the generation of nursing and midwifery professions that are in the history of professional practice and teaching. The Social Representation Theory is useful as a framework to study the way obstetrics was inserted in nursing, to understand why teaching was united and to make explicit the reflexion on these transformations to the professional practice. A preliminary analysis points out that the consolidation of the social representation of the obstetric nurse has been done with difficulties, as in nursing context, the reified and the consensual universes of thinking related to this question rarely are convergent.

[The implementation of a program for preparing parturients for childbirth at the University Hospital of the University of São Paulo]. / Implementação do programa de preparo de gestantes para o parto no Hospital Universitário da USP.

The Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing Program of the School of Nursing of USP has worked with the Maternal and Infant Division of the University Hospital of USP since 1981. Among the activities carried out are the childbirth classes to prepare pregnant women, developed from 1990 as teaching-practice linkage. The evaluation of the preparation take into account the process of collaboration nursing education and nursing services.