Maria Auxiliadora Trevisan

FOCALIZANDO O EXERCÍCIO ADMINISTRATIVO NO CONJUNTO DE FUNÇÕES DO ENFERMEIRO

Within the hospital context, the nurse cannot avoid the administrative function, even though this is a controversial issue in Brazilian nursing. To focus on the problem, in the present study we set out to identify the set of functions of nurses working on the admission floors and to determine the distribution of administrative functions according to their bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic characteristics. The data were collected at four admission units by intermittent observation of work performed by nurses in 1985. The following set of functions were identified: administration (62,5%), patient assistance (19,2%), teaching and research (3,8%), functions that could be delegated to others (6,8%) and personal (7,6%). The administrative functions were classified into bureaucratic and non-bureaucratic with a respective distribution of 77% and 23%. The study indicates that the administrative function is one of the elements defining the nurses profile, even though the authors believe that this function should be better oriented.

Orientações ministradas à gestante durante a assistência pré-natal: atuação dos profissionais de Enfermagem

To characterize the educational nursing actions at the Prenatal Care Outpatients Clinic of the University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, it was carried out a study based on a retrospective survey of nursing notes made on medical records and an observation of the guidance provided by the nursing professional.