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Objective: to understand how is the access to the public health service users in the Papanicolaou Test. Methods: qualitative study, with 52 women who have changes in the Pap smear exam, questioning the exam achievement frequency and the difficulties of its access and the consultations. It was developed a thematic analysis based on the Fekete accessibility reference.Results: three categories emerged: access to information on the frequency of Pap smears, highlighting the completion of the examination linked only to the professional application; access to Pap smears, in which most women do not have difficulty; access to a return visit, showing the difficulty of women getting back into service after the exam. Conclusion: most women have easy access to the Pap smear.However, there are limitations on the return visit, hindering to establish immediate actions to the beginning of treatment.

Objetivo: compreender como se dá o acesso das usuárias do serviço público de saúde ao exame Papanicolau. Métodos: estudo qualitativo, com 52 mulheres que apresentaram alteração no exame Papanicolau, questionando a frequência de realização do exame e as dificuldades de acesso a este e às consultas. Desenvolveu-se análise temática à luz do referencial de acessibilidade de Fekete. Resultados: emergiram três categorias: acesso à informação sobre a frequência do exame Papanicolau, despontando a realização do exame atrelada unicamente à solicitação do profissional; acesso ao exame Papanicolau, em que a maioria das mulheres não possui dificuldade; acesso à consulta de retorno, mostrando a dificuldade das mulheres conseguirem voltar ao serviço após o exame. Conclusão: a maioria das mulheres tem facilidade de acesso para a realização do citopatológico, porém, há limitações quanto à consulta de retorno, dificultando o estabelecimento de ações imediatas para o início do tratamento.

Objective: to evaluate the use of abbreviations in nursing records of a teaching hospital and describing their profile in different sectors, work shifts and professional nursing categories.Methods: documentary study that analyzed 627 nursing records in 24 patient charts using a systematic observation script. Results: we identified 1,792 abbreviations, and 35.8% were nonstandard. The incidence of abbreviations was higher in the Intensive Care Unit, used by nurses and in the night shift. Conclusion: abbreviations are part of the day-to-day of nursing records. The use of nonstandard abbreviations make difficult to understand the note content, can generate misinterpretations, put at risk the users’ safety and impair the continuity of labor work.

Objetivo: avaliar a utilização de abreviaturas nos registros de enfermagem de um hospital de ensino descrevendo seu perfil nos diferentes setores, turnos de trabalho e categorias profissionais de enfermagem. Métodos: estudo documental analisou 627 registros de enfermagem em 24 prontuários utilizando um roteiro de observação sistematizado. Resultados: foram identificadas 1.792 abreviaturas, sendo 35,8% não padronizadas. A incidência de abreviaturas foi maior na Unidade de Terapia Intensiva, utilizadas pelos enfermeiros e no período noturno. Conclusão:abreviaturas fazem parte do cotidiano dos registros de enfermagem. O uso de abreviaturas não padronizadas dificulta a compreensão do conteúdo da anotação e pode gerar interpretações equivocadas e colocar em risco a segurança do usuário, além de comprometer a continuidade do trabalho laboral.

Objective: to understand the impact and changes in the routine of family relationships caused by pain in elderly patients with oncological diseases. Methods: it is a qualitative research based on oral history of life. Study participants were five elderly of the Nucleus of Hemotherapy and Hematology. Criteria of Inclusion were being assisted by the treatment team, in cancer treatment during the study period and  being 60 years old or more. Results: data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using content analysis. Conclusion: it was shown that the pain caused feelings of sadness and isolation, changing the lives of the elderly and their families. Cancer and pain produced physical and psychological repercussions, affecting their lives. The success for the treatment of pain depends on the work of professionals to make the complete identification of complaints, selecting strategies and evaluating them.

Although Sigmund Freud himself had already emphasized the importance of labour as a source of satisfaction to the libido, many analysts still ignore the relevance of studying this particular theme. In this article, we intend to explore the questions on work and labour, discussing Jacques Lacan’ s theory of the four discourses and reviewing the contributions of some authors in social sciences.

This article results from an exploratory study about work and leisure. Its objectives were to check how workers with higher education assess the quantitative distribution of their time and also to analyze how they assess the quality of the experiences they come across during both their work and free time. A questionnaire was used with 62 postgraduate-level students who are active workers. The data was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The main results indicate negative assessment on time distribution for work and leisure and on the quality of the experiences lived in each of these moments although the experiences which happened during leisure time were more valued by the subjects. The conclusion was that it is important that leisure, as part of a whole human experience, be redefined in the workers’ lives, and that they relearn how to live their lives in a slower, lighter, and more meaningful way.

The topics discussed in this contribution are founded on two basic assumptions; the first considers a complex organization as a social subsystem in which all the specific characteristics of the “macrosystem” may be found.  The second (consequential to the first) favours the interpretation of “organization-as-culture” (or as a sociocultural system). Assuming what has been said above, then, it follows (and this is the sense of this essay) that complex organizations, in as much as they are sociocultural (sub)systems, cannot be considered, perhaps today more than in the past, systems impervious to the sociocultural world of which they are a part, or in other words, it is not possible to speak of a culture of organizations as if it were a unique, coherent system of models and values: the plurality of cultural influences present in the highly differentiated contemporary societies is reflected also on the situations inside these organizations.

The changes faced by the university education in Brazil take place simultaneously with those occurred on a broader view in the world of work, especially regarding the occupation of faculty members as units of important analysis for investigations in the arena of organizational and work psychology. Studies addressing compromise with work highlight the relation with the career as a focus of continuous growing significance in the lives of individuals, which work environments are becoming increasingly uncertain and mutant. This objective of this study was to examine the associations between compromise with career and subjective well-being among faculty members. For such purpose the author carried out a quantitative cross survey using self-applicable closed-type questionnaires responded by 551 teachers throughout the national territory. The main results include the high level of compromise with the career, as well as a positive and significant correlation between the compromise and the subjective well-being of faculty members, thus confirming the trends reported by the international literature and broadening the possibilities of associations between the compromise and non-work variables. Intensive and qualitative studies are recommended in order to understand the meaning of these associations and how those two variables are correlated.

The idea that the career consists of a linear trajectory structured by the company has been changing to a new reality in which the career is seen as a journey, open to possibilities and uncertainties. Several models have emerged in an attempt to understand this journey, among these, the model of career narrative, which assumes that, while narrating, individuals give meaning to their trajectory. The present study aimed to investigate the career trajectory of human resource professionals working in the Greater Natal. For this purpose, the model of career narrative was used. From the methodological viewpoint, the project was divided in two stages. The first was characterized by conducting a survey through the application of a semi-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and analysis of clusters included 117 participants. The second stage was characterized by the completion of 17 narrative interviews. In reviewing the results, we found that the identification with the activity is a decisive factor for choosing and remaining in the HR field. The lack of recognition appears as the main difficulty faced by professionals. The analysis leads to discussions about the career path in HR and reflections for the category, representative bodies and educational institutions.

This paper aims to understand how young people explain the phenomenon of youth prolongation from their own experiences and their evaluation of the social and historical context in which they are inserted. A qualitative research with a cross-sectional design was developed with people aged 25-29 years old from Brazil and Spain. Individual in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted with men and women in both countries, totaling 50 respondents. The interviews were recorded and transcribed, organized and categorized with Atlas-ti® software and analyzed through semantic content analysis. The analysis makes it evident that the interviewees highlighted two different explanation models that refer to extrinsic and intrinsic aspects. The formers refer to the economic crisis and the difficulties in labor insertion of young people, the increase in life expectancy, the social permission and encouragement of the family to carry on with a young life, and the influence of the media in this same direction. The intrinsic explanations would be characterized by value changes-linked to the priority given to financial aspects and professional life-and the growing appreciation of a hedonistic ethics observed among young people.

The main objective of this dissertation is to investigate work’s centrality on Brazilian women’s entrance in the Portuguese labor market. Two principal axes support the analysis: the current labor market transformation and the feminization of the immigration flow. The recent global geopolitical transformations resulted, inter alia, in the increase of economic inequality among countries, the restructuring of the modes of production, the intensification of the labor precarization process, to the decentralization of the production and to the opening of domestic economies to an international market, directly affecting the international flow of migration. Based on this transformation and its impact on labor, this study examines the immigration of Brazilian women and its relation to the Portuguese labor market. Regarding methodology, a qualitative approach was chosen, and 21 in-depth interviews were carried out with Brazilian women, from 25 to 35 years old, who work or used to work in Portugal. The Critical Discourse Analysis was used to analyze these interviews, as discourse analysis allows access to symbolical structures that forge and frame everyday life. The understanding of the process of discourse formation took priority over interpretation.

The paper reports an experience of intervention performed at Centro de Ciências Agrárias of Universidade Federal do Ceará. Grounded on Clinic of Activity, the intervention is characterized as a health promotion action, according to Política de Atenção à Saúde e Segurança do Trabalho do Servidor Público Federal. The intervention aimed at the technical-administrative staff who act as secretaries of undergraduate, postgraduate, academic departments and teachers who head these sectors. The intervention comprises three steps: the construction of analyzes and proposals to transformations, the formulation of an action plan and monitoring the implementation of this planning. Considering the developmental-historical methodology, the instruction to the double and the Escala de Avaliação do Contexto de Trabalho (Work Context Assessment Scale) were used. Workers identified problems related to failures in the activity’s prescription, to difficulties in the relationship with their colleagues and bosses and debilities in the work conditions. Transformation proposals of work context were conceived, so as a planning for its execution. It was concluded that is indispensable the creation of dialogue spaces between the workers and enlarge the interlocution with theirs bosses, and also more attention with the actualization of the prescription forms and the circulation of informations within the institutions.

This is a posthumous tribute to Professor Reinier Rozestraten. The text presents succinctly the academic route by the appointed professor, and in particular his passage through Traffic Psychology. Parallel it talks about his main work in the area, which somehow introduces the psychological discourse about the traffic behavior in national perspective, with his concern for printing a scientific character to the theme and introducing it in the context of academia and society at theoretical and practical perspectives. The chosen work is considered a milestone for the establishment of the theoretical discipline of traffic psychology in Brazil. The tribute was originally written in occasion of the fifth death aniversary of Professor Reinier Rozestraten.

Documento em PDF que contém capa, editorial e sumário da edição n°1 do volume 5.

Contemporary studies on Brazilian Education demonstrate how much the interpenetration of multiple fields of knowledge became feasible as a resource increasingly needed to account for the complexity of the study of its object. And this is motivated by the paths of Education itself, in view of all the theoretical and methodological progress it has made in modernity and in our day. Because of these, it can no longer be understood except as a dialectical process which must both take into account the historical-social and material bases of its conditions, but also can not forget the singular dimensions that permeate the constitution of the subject of pro- learning process. Subjectivity refers to the formation of the conscious activities involved in the apprehension of the real at stake in the process - including ideological formations - as well as that which refers us to the work of the unconscious. The collection "Brazilian Education: prumos "is a living example of this state of the production of knowledge about the educational reality of our country at the present moment, such is the diversity of subjects and disciplines of the most diverse as of cultural practices and, even lay, that inform us about the relevance of the efforts to delimit what is the task of all: the aforementioned directions and the prognoses of our Education.

The present work, which is bibliographic in nature, intend to delineate some reflections about research in Psychology, focusing on issues that involve quantitative and qualitative analysis in the social sciences, including the psychological field, since there is a movement in favor of the concomitant use of these two types of analysis, instead of isolated paradigms, signalizing greater breadth of information that the use of multimodal techniques can offer. The objective is to illustrate the research subject in a didactic manner, in order to promote a better understanding, especially for those who are starting in this area of knowledge.

This article articulates the culture of Peace with the inclusion of socio6political gay subject treats discrimination as a form of violence and evolves into a scope that contextualizes the human sexual diversity in the setting of public policy in the country. It presents the culture of Emancipation as an alternative construction of a social reality less oppressive and more democratic, more open to the acceptance of human diversity, based on nonviolence and its motion for an active Emancipation with roots that are grounded in human rights. A more detailed explanation about the violence and discrimination is not the object of this work, once this would be beyond its present objectives however, it is expected that it raises a critical thinking in the reader, because of the way its content is presented. Otherwise the present text enable the search for more information in in specialized literature among them those that are mentioned in the footnotes and in the article’s references.

The aim of this study was to analyze the work satisfaction of independent truck drivers and employees of carriers. It is understood that job satisfaction is essential to improving the quality of life for professionals who spend much of their time outside the home and in natural conditions. We interviewed 342 drivers in various states of Brazil, with a mean age of 44 years (SD 10.88), and more than half with only primary education. The results show a strong influence of loading demand and employment contract with companies for the best satisfaction. Drivers report great dissatisfaction with the work, which includes basic conditions (health and safety) issues marked (offering loads, waiting time in queues). An understanding of satisfaction and better conditions offered by companies are important variables to improve health and welfare of these professionals.

This paper aims at discussing the fundaments of psychoanalysis, in order to give an overview of how the psychoanalyst operates in his/her practice, thus delineating what is known as a clinic of desire – the traditional device of psychoanalysis, seeking to understand the way in which the analytical device operates with the subject under analysis, as well as, envision possible scopes and limitations of this métier. To do so, we will also discuss, briefly, the formation of the subject with which psychoanalysis exerts its clinical work, understanding that this subject is, for psychoanalysis, built. Thus, it is pertinent to conduct a reflection, in the form of a critical analysis, both from a cultural perspective, as taking the psychoanalytic framework of the theoretical, technical and practical point of view, in order to understand what some authors have discussed about the position taken by the subject in contemporary times, as well as by the psychoanalyst facing the conflicts that this subject brings to his/her clinic. In this sense, texts of Freud and Lacan, who contributed to build this same theoretical framework were used. As well as texts of secondary references, commentators who explore and clarify themes and concepts developed by Freud and Lacan throughout their theoretical constructs.