[Use of a brainstorming technique for decision making by a public health nursing team]. / Uso da técnica de Brainstorming para tomada de decisões na equipe de enfermagem de saúde pública.

The study focuses on the use of brainstorming tool for consensual decision making in nursing services. A qualitative research has been developed with focus group technique use involving 6 workers from a basic health unit in Joao Pessoa city which belongs to the state network of Paraíba State Health Secretary. The results showed the method application plausibility as a strategy to nursing services quality improvement.

[Being a nurse in a transcultural context]. / O ser enfermeiro num contexto transcultural.

This is a descriptive and exploratory study developed according to a qualitative approach, aiming at discovering how male nurses are seen by the family and other professionals regarding their profession. Also, it has observed their technical vision about this problem. This research was done with male nurses from the Master Degree Course in Public Health Nursing at the Federal University of Paraíba. The population of this study was composed of six male nurses from which four agreed in taking part in this research. The data were collected through a questionnaire with open questions, based on the Leininger Transcultural Theory. The results showed that a great shock and cultural impositions among the male nurses, who have suffered a great variety of misconceptions and stigmatized assumptions from different social actors.