[Motivational profile of nurses working in a general hospital in the state of São Paulo]. / Perfil motivacional do enfermeiro atuante em um hospital geral do interior paulista.

The present study aimed at identifying the motivational profile of nurses who work in a public general hospital as well as at finding out the motivations that lead nurse in their work and correlating attitudes and beliefs verified in the responses of the subjects to work and their motivations. Data were collected through three instruments, two of them were scales of Likert type (MOSE e ACTRA) and one questionnaire with data to characterize the sample that was formed by 184 nurses. Results enabled the author to delineate a motivational profile based on the three social motivations and conclude that the majority of nurses studied are working in order to overcome the underdevelopment.

[Information theory as an instrument for research on verbal integration between the AIDS carrier and the nursing team]. / Teoria da informação como instrumento de pesquisa na integração verbal entre o portador de AIDS e a equipe de enfermagem.

The objective of this paper was to verify the use of variables included in the information Theory in study that deals with verbal interaction between AIDS patients and Nursing team. The results showed that the use of the variability calculation in data retained in SAVI matrix improves the statistical data and permit that the quality of the dialogue can be evaluated.