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Objective: assessing the knowledge and practice of nurses of the Family Health Strategy about autistic disorder. Method: an exploratory research of a qualitative approach consisting of 15 nurses. There was used a semistructured interview. Data analysis was made by the representational analysis. It was approved by the Committee of Ethics in Research of the University of Rio Grande do Norte (CEP/UERN nº 124/11). Results: it became evident insecurity and fragility in nurses' knowledge about autistic disorder, because they have failed to define autism or demonstrated experience with autistic people and report the lack of training turned to the above topic. Conclusion: there was knowledge deficit by the nurses about infantile autism and the inextencence of practical interventions with autistic people and their families, besides not offering capabilities that address the subject.

Objective: this study aims to analyzing the knowledge of nurses from the Family Health Strategy in relation to sexual diversity and homophobia. Method: this is an exploratory, qualitative research conducted with 12 nurses. We used a semi-structured interview and for analysis, Technical Analysis Speech Eni Orlandi, making analogy with the results with metaphor. This study had the project approved by the Research Ethics Committee, CAAE 0031.0.428.000-11. Results: the nurses have reported sexual diversity as sexual orientation system and biological sex. About homophobia, they attributed coherent meanings. However, having regard to the expression of "implicit homophobia" or "symbolic". Conclusion: it is urgent to promote health through the recognition of social determinants; therefore, the experience and the approach with existing sexual multiplicity in the area limited to nurses can be presented as a way of addressing the issues related to sexual diversity.