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Objective: this study aimed to describe the meanings that a multidisciplinary team at Intensive Care Unit
Adult holds about the process of dying and death. Method: The research was qualitative, conducted through
semi-structured interviews with 21 health professionals. The results were analyzed in grounded thematic
content analysis, which resulted in the following categories: non-scientific view of death and dying, and
scientific view of death and dying. Results: Meanings about death were evidenced as a natural process, a
step to fulfill a physiological event and extinction. Conclusion: It is important to know the meanings that
these professionals have about these events for discussions and reflections that help the healthcare team to
live with death and dying.

Objective: Describing the profile of violence against women regarding aggression, the socio-demographic characteristics of the victim and the perpetrator of the violence. Method: a transversal study of quantitative approach and descriptive analysis. The population consisted of 42 women victims of violence. Results: of the total 42 participants, prevailed in women aged 30-39 years old, with complete high school and family income of 1-3 minimum wages. The physical, psychological and moral violence prevailed in 26,2% of cases. The main offenders were the companions of those women, the home environment is the space where most attacks occur and jealousy was appointed as the main factor to unleash aggression. The attackers, mostly present among the age group 40-49 years old, and have had studied until elementary school. Conclusion: it notes the challenge and the responsibility of health professionals in the recognition and registration of cases seen in health services.

Objective: To describe how the technical nursing staff perceives and describes the work process in an Oncology
Clinic. Method: A qualitative study. Data was obtained through the use of focus groups and analyzed using
content analysis method Result: From the analysis of the participant's reports emerged the following category:
(re)organization of team work. The units of analysis were established to organize and sequence discussions:
Barriers in health care network; Work organization focused on professional; Assistance provided to the patient
as the central character; Difficulty in linking the micro processes carried out at the clinic. Conclusion: It is
concluded that the work is exercised in a fragmented way and that the work process reorganizes, changing its
components, but maintaining the same product.

Objective: developing the main diagnoses and nursing interventions related to complications of radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer. Method: a descriptive study developed in three stages: literature review in the databases MEDLINE and LILACS; identification of complications reported at least in 50% of the articles, which were xerostomia and mucositis and composition of diagnoses and nursing interventions according to the International Classification for Nursing Practice. Results: there were formulated the diagnoses: "Low Salivation" and "Inflammation of the Oral Mucous Membrane" and 40 nursing interventions. Conclusion: this study contributed in the organization of nursing care through the use of a standardized terminology for diagnoses and nursing interventions that support the nursing consultation in the sector of radiotherapy.

Objective: This study aimed to characterize the severity of men victims of motorcycle accidents. Method: a transversal study of quantitative approach and descriptive analysis. A total of 901 official reports of the Mobile Emergency Care of Espírito Santo/Brazil were analyzed. Results: the excoriation (44,66%), the cutblunt injury (21,94%), fractures and traumatic amputation (12,45%) were the most frequent types of injury; the lower limbs (40%), the skull and cervical spine (9,41%) were the most affected segments of the body; 6 deaths occurred at place of accident (0,66%). Conclusion: It is concluded that motorcycle accidents are a major health problem of man, not only because of the frequency they occur, but also mainly because of the severity of lesions generated by this type of accident, confirming the importance of the preparation of nurses involved in care and adoption of preventive measures.

Objective: To knowing the perception of the nursing staff of a unit of chemotherapy about care. Method: A descriptive and qualitative study, performed in a hospital of a general philanthropic and private character in Vitória/Espírito Santo, Brazil. The participants were eight nurses working in the unit. The data were recorded and collected through a semi-structured interview with the following question: What is care for you? Results: For the analysis of information followed the steps recommended for thematic analysis, resulting in structuring the analytical category called: Nursing care in chemotherapy. Conclusion: The results indicate that care requires much more than technical scientific knowledge, it requires understanding of the background of your individuality, from an interpersonal valuation of the human person, therefore contributing with the process of humanization of care.

RESUMO A pesquisa objetivou descrever como ocorreu a participação dos Agentes Comunitários de Saúde (ACS) no Programa Nacional de Melhoria do Acesso e da Qualidade da Atenção Básica (PMAQ-AB) e avaliar sua perspectiva em relação às melhorias no acesso e na qualidade da Atenção Básica (AB). Trata-se de estudo descritivo, transversal com abordagem quantitativa, realizado com 133 ACS vinculados às equipes de saúde da família que aderiram ao programa. Observou-se a necessidade de maiores esforços dos municípios para incentivar a inclusão dos ACS nos processos avaliativos e melhorar a sua capacitação, visando adequar seu nível de apreensão e conhecimento sobre o acesso e qualidade do cuidado na AB.

Objective: To analyse the women's perception on the violence experienced. Method: Qualitative study. Data was obtained through a semi-structured interview, and was analysed through the Content Analysis modality. Results: Four thematic categories were identified from the analysis of the accounts of the 14 participating women: 34,8% of the accounts fit in the category Perception and Feelings about violence; 26,1% presented accounts on the category Perception of the Motives for the Experience of Violence; and also in the category Freedom Cessation; and 13,0% in the category Reflex of Violence on Health. Conclusion: There is a need for policies and actions that support and contribute to women's freedom from violence, as well as the strengthening of intersectoral support networks, as violence poses a number of problems not only of socio-economic nature, but also damages the health of their victims.

Objective: Identifying the available evidence in the literature about galactogogues substances (liquids, herbs or foods with properties to increase milk production). Method: an integrative literature review that surveyed the bases BDENF, LILACS and MEDLINE with the descriptors "lactation disorders", "breastfeeding", "galactogogues", in portuguese, english and spanish, until the year 2011. The final sample was formed of 27 articles. Results: the most prevalent galactogogues were: black beer, hydration, hominy, chicken soup, metoclopramide, chlorpromazine, domperidone, fenugreek and fennel. Conclusion: the culture permeates practice of breastfeeding and therefore must be considered by health professionals in guidance and encouragement to breastfeeding.