[Where (and how) do we find quality in the hospital nursing service?]. / Onde (e como) encontramos a qualidade en no serviço de enfermagem hospitalar?

Based on literature, one tries rescuing what is approached in the issues regarding the quality of the nursing care and rendering visible some of the spaces that have long been occupied by the nursing professionals as well as other spaces which are currently feasible to be occupied. The discussion focuses a case experienced by subjects who look for health care before the presuppositions that comprise the issue of health right. From this situation, one goes through Florence and reaches the 3-level requirements from the Credentials National Organization, followed by a questioning about the continuity or the rupture of a scenario of regulating informal actions of the alleged quality, distinguished by the presuppositions elected for this reflection. There is an opening for new questionings in view of the re/meaning of the referred presuppositions that echoes on the quality of the nursing service.

[The Brazilian Nursing Political Professional Project and the Aben-Paraná presidents between 1980 and 2001]. / O Projeto Político Profissional da Enfermagem Brasileira e as presidentes da AbEn-Paraná entre 1980 e 2001.

Historicizing the development of the Brazilian Nursing Political-Professional Project (PPPEB), at the Brazilian Nursing Association-Parana Division (ABEn-PR), under the optical overview of the ex-presidents during the years 1980 and 2001, identifying future action perspectives. Data information was collected with interviews and documental research with seven ex-presidents. Concluding that the PPPEB directives, directed the researched management actions. The ex-presidents showed a sense of responsibility, commitment with the Union, with the association and also with the SUS users (Health Unique System). Within the difficulties, pointed low participation of the associated, also the Board Directors; low number of associates, financial instability, and others. Future perspectives suggest an increase of nursery adhesion at the ABEn, stimulated since the college, in order to consolidate the PPPEB.

[Building a new form for professional organization--a challeng for the "Political-Professional Project of Brazilian Nursing"]. / La construcción de una nueva forma de representación profesional--un desafio en el "Proyecto Político-Profesional de la Enfermería Brasilera".

This article is a reflection about the form of Brazilian nursing professional organization, highlighting the limits of the current model and the challenges for the future. It is based on the authors' analysis of an important social movement of Brazilian Nursing, the "Participation Movement" that took place from 1980 to 1990. This Movement has promoted a reflection about nursing work and organization and about nursing participation in the country's re-democratization, as well as defending the right to health. This article summarizes some gains obtained by the movement, especially in the Brazilian Nursing Association-ABEn, and limits in the discussion about the professional organization. It highlights the need to establish agreements and to include in the "Nursing Political-Professional Project" the importance of building a unifying organization originating from ABEn.

[Auditing the nursing care methodology]. / Auditoria do método de assistência de enfermagem.

This study it describes the development of a process of audit of the Method of Assistance of Nursing in a unit of internment of a University Hospital. Identified the standards, the instrument was elaborated, under the form of indicators, in which had been examined, random, five handbooks with examination of the user "in loco". The data had been to add and classified in a quanti-qualification of the assistance of Nursing. The found results indicate the necessity of revision of the Standards of the Method of Assistance of Nursing and of the immediate retaking of the program of auditor of the assistance of Nursing.

[Psychiatry reform: analysis of power relations in mental health care services]. / Reforma psiquiátrica: uma analítica das relações de poder nos serviços de atenção à Saúde mental.

This paper approaches the topic of Psychiatric Care Reform in Brazil and, particularly, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, as well as the role played by a disciplinary power in modern society. We believe that in spite of the implementation of a reform in Psychiatric care and the growing progress in the legislation aimed at protecting psychiatric patients, such individuals are still the objects and the instruments inside relationships of disciplinary power. This study is based on Michel Foucalt's works, especially on his analysis of the power relationships, in order to elicit answers to our main question, to support the thesis we formulated, and to reach our goal, which is to ponder on the discrepancy we perceive between legal victories and the new speech delivered by the psychiatric care reformers, and on a practice which seems to deny emancipation to psychiatric sufferers, that is, deny their citizenship.