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Objective: To describe the effect of home care nursing in knowledge, hospitalization and blood pressure levels in
patients with hypertension treated impaired. Method: quantitative research with a retrospective design, made from
the database extension project developed in a basic health unit of a municipality in the metropolitan region of
Curitiba-PR. The activities included in the project were educational group and follow-up at home for 12 months. The
sample consisted of 16 users with hypertension. Results: There was a higher frequency of women with a mean age of
63 year old. There was improvement in knowledge about hypertension, reduction in the rate of hospital admission due
to hypertensive crisis and increase in the proportion of individuals with controlled blood pressure. Conclusion: The
home care was effective in controlling blood pressure.

Objetive: This study aims to identify the social representations of adolescent nursing mothers on breastfeeding. Method: An seploratory descriptive study founded on the theory of social representations, and carried out in the coverage area of three Family Healthcare Units in the Metropolitan Area of Curitiba, Parana State, Brazil. Nine adolescents were interviewed by means of a semi-structured interview, data analyzed through thematic category analysis. Results: The following categories were identified: Experience of the family breastfeeding network and Breastfeeding as an obligation. Data evidenced that adolescents underpin their breastfeeding representations on family experience and represent health professionals with an authoritarian attitude to promote breastfeeding. Conclusion: These results may support professional practice redesign from a prescriptive manner to critic, creative, dialogical care, based on principles of wholeness and equity, which entail health needs not only for the mother, but as well, for the child as social subjects.