Planning nursing teaching: Educational purposes and clinical competence

Thinking about nursing education implies articulating this issue with the expressions of theoretical frameworks, from the perspective of a pedagogical aspect that includes both constructivism and competencies. The objective was to characterize, from a longitudinal view, the construction of care competencies that exist in the teaching plans of nursing undergraduate programs. This exploratory-descriptive study used a qualitative approach. Documentary analysis was performed on the nine teaching plans of undergraduate care subjects. The ethical-legal aspects were guaranteed, so that data was collected only after the study had been approved by the Research Ethics Committee. The data evidenced a curriculum organization centered on subjects, maintaining internal rationales that seem to resist summative organizations. Signs emerge of hardly substantial links between any previous knowledge and the strengthening of critical judgment and clinical reasoning. As proposed, the study contributed with reconsiderations for the teachinglearning process and showed the influence of constructivism on the proposal of clinical competencies.

Effect of superstimulatory treatments on the expression of genes related to ovulatory capacity, oocyte competence and embryo development in cattle.

Multiple ovulation (superovulation) and embryo transfer has been used extensively in cattle. In the past decade, superstimulatory treatment protocols that synchronise follicle growth and ovulation, allowing for improved donor management and fixed-time AI (FTAI), have been developed for zebu (Bos indicus) and European (Bos taurus) breeds of cattle. There is evidence that additional stimulus with LH (through the administration of exogenous LH or equine chorionic gonadotrophin (eCG)) on the last day of the superstimulatory treatment protocol, called the 'P-36 protocol' for FTAI, can increase embryo yield compared with conventional protocols that are based on the detection of oestrus. However, inconsistent results with the use of hormones that stimulate LH receptors (LHR) have prompted further studies on the roles of LH and its receptors in ovulatory capacity (acquisition of LHR in granulosa cells), oocyte competence and embryo quality in superstimulated cattle. Recent experiments have shown that superstimulation with FSH increases mRNA expression of LHR and angiotensin AT(2) receptors in granulosa cells of follicles >8 mm in diameter. In addition, FSH decreases mRNA expression of growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) and bone morphogenetic protein 15 (BMP15) in oocytes, but increases the expression of both in cumulus cells, without diminishing the capacity of cumulus-oocyte complexes to generate blastocysts. Although these results indicate that superstimulation with FSH is not detrimental to oocyte competence, supplementary studies are warranted to investigate the effects of superstimulation on embryo quality and viability. In addition, experiments comparing the cellular and/or molecular effects of adding eCG to the P-36 treatment protocol are being conducted to elucidate the effects of superstimulatory protocols on the yield of viable embryos.

Moral judgment competence of medical students: a transcultural study

The authors conducted a cross-sectional short-term study using Lind's Moral Judgment Test (MJT) to compare moral judgment competence (C-score) among students from a medical school in the Northeast region of Brazil and a medical school in the Northern region of Portugal. This study compares the C-scores of groups in the first and eighth semesters of study within each medical school and groups from corresponding semesters between the two medical schools. This study also evaluates the influence of such factors as age and gender on moral competence. A regression of moral judgment competence among the students in their eighth semester versus the students in the first semester of Brazilian medical school (p < 0.001) and a stagnation of moral competence among students in their eighth semester versus the first semester students in the Portuguese medical school (p = 0.06) were observed. For both the first semester and eighth semester groups, the students in the Portuguese medical school had higher C-scores than the students in the Brazilian medical school. In the analysis of the students' performances in terms of MJT dilemmas, the phenomenon of moral segmentation was observed in all of the groups, and the students performed better on the worker's dilemma than on the doctor's dilemma. Among students in the same semester of study, older students had lower C-scores. There was generally no significant difference between men's and women's C-scores. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

Variação lexical e sintática na produção escrita formal do português em Moçambique

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Equivalência lexical e aspectos morfológicos de termos em português e espanhol do domínio da dermatologia

Pós-graduação em Estudos Linguísticos - IBILCE

Estudo do acento lexical no português arcaico por meio das Cantigas de Santa Maria

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Metáforas do universo lexical português e italiano das zonas erógenas: ânus, nádegas, pênis, seios, testículos e vulva

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

A variação e a mudança lexical da língua portuguesa em Moçambique

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Estudo lexical do patrimônio linguístico-cultural de Curuçá-PA: vocábulos de pesca

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Aspectos sintaticamente relevantes do significado lexical: estudo dos verbos de movimento

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Estudo geossociolinguístico da variação lexical na zona rural do estado do Pará

Este estudo tem por objetivo principal mapear uma parcela do corpus coletado por pesquisadores do projeto GeoLinTerm para a elaboração do Atlas Geossociolinguístico do Pará (ALIPA) no intento de projetar imagens prévias desse, no que se refere à variação lexical na zona rural do Estado. Para tanto, foram cartografados dados de doze municípios, sendo dois de cada uma das seis mesorregiões paraenses, quais sejam: Santarém e Oriximiná (Mesorregião do Baixo Amazonas); Anajás e Breves (Mesorregião do Marajó); Castanhal e Santo Antônio do Tauá (Mesorregião Metropolitana de Belém); Abaetetuba e Bragança (Mesorregião Nordeste); Altamira e Itaituba (Mesorregião Sudoeste); e Conceição do Araguaia e Redenção (Mesorregião Sudeste). Foram adotados os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos da Dialetologia e da Geografia Linguística, essas que, com o advento da Sociolinguística Labovina, passaram a controlar variantes sociais, como: sexo, idade, escolaridade dos informantes, além da variante geográfica tradicionalmente estudada, o que resultou no que se entende hoje por multidimensionalidade nos atlas linguísticos. Os dados foram selecionados, transcritos foneticamente, cartografados e discutidos. As análises foram realizadas no intuito de dar conta das dimensões diatópica, diagenérica e diageracional da variação ocorrida na fala dos informantes. Tratando as lexias cartografadas em cada carta lexical, foi realizado um levantamento do registro dessas lexias em dicionários de língua portuguesa e em outros estudos dialetológicos. Além disso, as variantes sociais são quantificadas em gráficos que demonstram as porcentagens de ocorrências das lexias mais recorrentes em cada carta. Como resultados obtivemos a produção de cinquenta cartas lexicais, dentre as quais, foram selecionadas as trinta mais produtivas do ponto de vista da variação lexical para serem apresentadas e discutidas neste trabalho. Observou-se que, em linhas gerais, se tomarmos o critério da predominância, os dados cartografados se organizam em agrupamentos lexicais de três tipos, formados a partir da distribuição geolinguística das lexias nos pontos de inquérito.