http://www.uesb.br/revista/rsc/v3/v3n1a02.pdf

It was aimed, in this study, to identify the social representations of the care, starting from the determination of the central nucleus and peripheral system. One hundred diabetics had been part of the research, registered in a Basic Unit of Health of Jequié-BA. Evocations free from words were collected produced starting from stimulate inductor - to take care of somebody. The results had evidenced that the structure of the social representations of the care has as central element the affective aspects and as peripheral system, cognitive elements. It was concluded that for the diabetics the affective attributes are indispensable to the practical of the care.

episode care --- diabetes mellitus --- social perception

The problem of the hospital solid residues is subject of world-wide interest and has been treated together with the relative problems to the public health. During this process of attendance different material they are used, generating effluent that they will need to be dealt with and a great variety solid residues that will need an adequate management. This work has for objective to analyze and to evaluate the real situation of the solid residues generated by the hospitals: Nursing home Efigênia Saint and Municipal Hospital Good Nursing home Jesus, in the city of Caruaru-PE, aiming at to subsidize information for the correct management of these residues, leading in considerações effective norms and legislações. To reach this objective a research through a structuralized questionnaire, auto-applicable and anonymous was carried through applied a head of cleanness of each hospital, and to the responsible employees for the solid residues of the services of health of the Nursing home Efigênia Saint (n=44) and of the Municipal Hospital Good Nursing home Jesus (n=13). He was possible to conclude that the responsible employees for the solid residues of health service need one better clarification of the damages that the hospital residues can cause for the health human being and the environment, needing training, clarification and awareness to deal with the lixos proceeding from the hospitals, mainly the public where the proper employees had pointed the necessity of courses and investment in the area.

solid management --- residues in the service of health --- public health

The territorialization embraces one of the Schooling, Service and Community Integration Program (PIESC – Programa de Integração Ensino, Serviço, Comunidade) stages, developed at the Bahia’s Southwest State University (UESB – Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia) Medicine School, whose general objective is to integrate the students to the practices of the Family Health Strategy and to the Brazilian Unique System of Health. Its essence is based on the direct reality investigation in order to understand it, which makes a subsequent intervention possible. During Monday’s school afternoons between August, 2004 and January, 2005, the Medicine students from UESB made the territorialization in the Miro Cairo’s Health Family Unit’s group II inclusion areas, in the Vilas Serranas’ Health Family Unit’s group II inclusion areas and in the URBIS VI Health Family Unit’s group I inclusion areas, three different districts areas in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia. Subdivided in three groups of ten students, each group acted on a different district, where it accompanied, supervised by an instructor, a health community agent’s visits routine. During the visits, the conditions of the community's life were observed and the population and the Family Health team were interviewed about the main health problems in the area. Thus, the territorialization practice at PIESC helps to characterize the local health reality and to integrate the medical school to the health situation of the population, the community and the family. Students noticed absence of basic sanitation in all district areas; great amount of animals loosened in the streets; great number of families accompanied by a health community agent or by the Family Health team; high violence index in certain areas; lacking populations; no policemen station in the areas and lack of the residents' consciousness about the garbage proceeding. Besides, it was verified the existence of social projects and local religious practices that interfered in the local health reality. Thereby, the observed areas health realities are unsustainable and intervention is urgently needed.

territorialization --- integration --- health --- family

The formation of professional nurses requests the most efficient teaching which confers him competence in achievement of activities of aid, managing, teaching and investigation. In this perspective the pedagogic workshops consist of alternative forms of approach in the construction of space for the exercise of position and critic. It has as its goal to give a subsidy to the disciples in the adjustment of knowledge and the promotion of exchange of knowledge. This study consists in a description of experience of academicians of the discipline Probation Course Supervised I from the gradation scale in nursery of the Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, campus Jequié between January 2003 and 2007 with the purpose to socialize experiences in the realization of pedagogic workshops. First the dayclass with representation of instructors and disciples, discussion of the memorandum, objects and methodology of the matter. After that, we discussed the organization and introduction and dramatization of health. We began activities at the field of probation and the disciples had opportunity to develop their actions with participation of instructor and preceptors. Finally there were some meetings of valuation. From the given results we realize that the pedagogic workshops made it possible that the activities of probation are ruled in previously discussed and socialized knowledge, the preceptors began to have more facility in accompany the students and related that they acted with a more adequate ethic position. The students affirmed that these workshops are primordial and valid for the consolidation of necessary knowledge for a good fulfillment and consequently for their professional formation. We found that the pedagogic workshops made it possible to act, know and execute nursing, which must be worked out continuously, because they are not an end in itself but a process in construction.

teaching --- nursing --- public health practice