[Literature review in a scientific work]. / A revisão de literatura na construção do trabalho científico.

This article gathers some indispensable informations to ease the structure of literature review in a scentific work. The author has developed its content in phases aiming to show a logical sequency of how we do a scientic work. In this text is discussed the importance of the literature review, the strategies to do it, the search and organization of the bibliography and at last, how to write it.

[Perception and feelings of patients in the immediate postoperative period in heart surgery in relationship with the visit]. / Percepção e sentimentos de pacientes em pós-operatório imediato de cirurgia cardíaca em relação à visita.

This research intends to know the perceptions and feelings of cardiac post-surgical patients towards visitation, adjustment of visitation times and who's visit is the best. It is a qualitative study with a descriptive and exploratory character. Five adult patients were interviewed on the sixth day after surgery. To analyse the data we used Content Analysis as suggested by Bardin (1977). The results show that the patients consider the family as the main support for their condition. The time of visitation is enough for this critical moment and the family is also the ideal visitor. The difficulties to communicate with the visitor, however, are evident due to their physical and emotional conditions.

[Absenteeism as a variable in human resource planning in nursing]. / Estudo do absenteísmo como variável no planejamento de recursos humanos em enfermagem.

The study of absenteeism in Nursing is an important item that subsizes planning and adjusting human resources, regarding the continuity of nursing labor 24 hours a day in a hospital. Absenteeism is the absence from work at moments workers should be regularly executing their duties. We identified an absenteeism rate and also characterized the kinds of absences from work among nursing personel in surgical wards of a University Hospital. This investigative study had a quantitave, qualitative and retrospective aspect. Data were obtained from January to December of 1998. Results showed 29.63% of absences on that period. This total is composed by 23.28% of predictable absences and 6.35% of non-predictable absences as an index of calculated absenteeism.

[Visitors' opinion on the system of patient visits in an intensive care unit]. / Opinião de visitantes sobre a sistemática de visitação a pacientes internados em unidade de terapia intensiva.

The objective of this study is to identify whether the current system of visits schedule and patient's information at a Clinical and Surgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) satisfy the patient's visitors. To do it, two hundred questionnaires were distributed, during a month, and one hundred and sixty returned. The results showed that 70% of the visitors are satisfied with the current schedule; 67% come in daily; 66% are satisfied with the time they have for visiting, 54% asked for access in out of the current schedule, 69% are satisfied with staff information about patients; 88% of the visitors are patient's relatives. The most frequent suggestion was to increase the visit time at this ICU.

[Students opinion about the administration of adult assistance]. / Opinião dos alunos sobre a disciplina Administração da Assistência ao Adulto.

This article describes the student's opinion about the discipline Administration of Adult Nursing Assistance, developed in the 7th term of nursing graduation course in UFRGS Nursing School. The aspects evaluated were: organization, objectives, theoretical framework, subjects relevance, teaching strategies, field of practice learning and supervision. It's a qualitative study, the instrument used is a questionary with open questions, which allows the students write their points of view about the discipline. The population selected was all students of 7th term of course in 1996/1 and 1996/2 (77 students), but only 34 students answered the instrument. The data were analyzed by Bardin (1977) conteud analysis approach.

[Nurses' perception of management]. / Percepção dos enfermeiros de unidade de internação sobre gerência.

The objective of this investigation is to identify nurses perception about wards management. The collecting of the data was mode through an organized interview with sixteen nurses which works in patients wards in three hospitals of Porto Alegre. The data were examined based on the conteud analysis proposed by Bardin (1977). The results showed five categories: management conception, management characteristics, nurses activities, feelings and nursing graduation and induce us to do some reflexion about the curriculum modification, nurse-teachers improvement and the adjustment between the learning necessity and the work market. In this way is vital that professionals to look for best proficiency.

[Systemic arterial hypertension: clinical aspects and aspects of care]. / Hipertensão arterial sistêmica: aspectos clínicos e assistenciais.

This article is a literature review about the concepts of systemic arterial hypertension, it's incidence, the diagnostic methods and used treatments. It emphasizing the nurse's role in the patients care, based on the authors' nursing practice at Hospital de Clínicas Porto Alegre. The authors describe measures to prevent and promote health, as well as advanced actions during hypertension crisis and emergency cases.

[Postoperative care after heart surgery. Report of experiences]. / Assistência de enfermagem em pós operatório de cirurgia cardíaca--relato de experiência.

The objective of the authors is to describe the nursing care for patients in post-operative cardiac surgery at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, emphasizing some important points to be observed for the best qualification and organization of the routines nowadays used. The nursing care is divided in many stages, all of them important, going from the unit organization, the patient admission in a critical moment, until the assistance to the patient discharge. The conclusion is that: it's very important, for an integral assistance to the patient, an adequated organization of the service, a good relation between multiprofessional staff, training staff, and specific staff for this nursing care.