Proper nutrition is essential for every human being, whether healthy or sick. Nutrition is, according to associate docent Kohout, one of the areas that is most neglected in health and social facilities in the Czech Republic. Standardized nutritional care should be established in all hospitals, representing a comprehensive nutritional and qualified solution for clients/patients. The standardized nutritional care involves systematic assessment of nutritional status of a client/patient and a search for clients/patients at nutritional risk. It further includes an appropriate diet according to the needs and capabilities of a client/patient and timely provision of adequate nutritional support to clients/patients who were identified as nutritionally at risk. Finally, standardized nutritional care also includes monitoring and documenting the effects of nutritional therapy, because the effect of individual measures cannot be monitored without proper documentation. The objective is to monitor the process of identification, evaluation and implementation of actions to ensure nutritional care in selected medical facilities from the perspective of the senior nursing management. Another objective is to map how significant quality indicator this is and what problems are seen in creating and maintaining a standard situation. Data collection was carried out by an interviewing technique using questionnaires. Respondents were from hospitals in the Czech Republic where we addressed the members of their senior nursing management. H1 ``The hospitals use established control mechanisms to find out about the nutritional status of compliance with established standards of nutritional care{\crqq} has been confirmed. H2 ``Nutritional screening is performed by nurses on all clients/patients at reception{\crqq} has been confirmed. H3 ``Nutritional screening during hospitalization is repeated only in clients/patients at risk{\crqq} has been confirmed. H4 ``Nurses develop nutritional screening within the cooperation of nurses with a nutritional therapist in the provision of standardized nutrition care{\crqq} has been confirmed, and H5 ``The results of nutritional screening are used by nurses as the basis for the saturation of clients{\crq}/patients{\crq} nutritional requirements{\crqq} has also been confirmed. The second objective was to map how significant quality indicator this is and what problems are seen in creating and maintaining a standard situation. The performance of nutritional screening has become the second most important quality indicator according to the research. As for the problems seen by respondents in relation to creating and maintaining a standard situation, it can be said, on the basis of the research results, that the biggest problems in creating and maintaining a standard situation is the lack of personnel, economic demands and approach of the personnel, their reluctance and disinterest. We attempted to explore the process of identification, evaluation and implementation of actions to ensure nutritional care in selected medical facilities from the perspective of the senior nursing management and then, based the results, to suggest ways of potential improvement of the current situation in the field of clients{\crq}/patients{\crq} nutrition.

The Thesis deals with a change of an approach of a nurse to nursing care provision after her promotion to a managerial position. A nurse appointed to the position of charge or head nurse has different responsibilities, she becomes a manager, her colleagues have suddenly become her subordinates, whose work she has to organize, lead and control. A wide range of new responsibilities might change her approach to provision of nursing care. The aim of the Thesis was to discover whether and how the approach of a nurse to nursing care changes when she is appointed to a managerial position and how a nurse promoted to a managerial position achieves authority among her subordinates. The following hypotheses were chosen in relation to the aims of the Thesis. Hypothesis 1: The approach of a nurse to nursing care changes after being promoted to a managerial position. Hypothesis 2: A nurse promoted to a managerial position requires provision of nursing care in line with nursing standards. Hypothesis 3: A nurse promoted to a managerial position is responsible for nursing care quality. Further research questions were put: 1. Is it difficult for a nurse promoted to a managerial position to achieve authority among senior nurses? 2. Is it difficult for a nurse promoted to a managerial position to control nursing care provided by shift nurses? 3. Is it easier for a nurse promoted to a managerial position to organize work for shift nurses she did not work with before? Quantitative research in the form of questionnaires was applied to confirmation or refutation of the hypotheses. The research sample consisted of head and charge nurses from South Bohemian hospitals and from hospitals in Příbram and Pelhřimov. Qualitative research was organized in the form of unstructured interviews with head nurses from Hospital České Budějovice. After evaluation of the results all the three hypotheses showed confirmed. The research results confirm that an approach of a nurse changes after their promotion to a managerial position. They are much more responsible for quality work among her subordinates. The results of the work will be presented at all-house seminars and conferences and published in a specialized journal. The results will also be provided to the hospital management {--} to the Nursing Care Manager {--} and finally to the respondents involved in the research.

Cooperation of nurses and physicians from the perspective of nursing management Master's thesis was focused on the cooperation of nurses and physicians from the perspective of nursing management. Nursing care and nursing management has an irreplaceable role in health care. The world of medicine, nursing care and health care is an extremely complex organizational system, which is not surely represented only by physicians and nurses, but these, however, are still the dominant persons on the scene. The first objective of this thesis was to make a survey of cooperation between nurses and physicians during the nursing process in the care of patients from the perspective of nursing management in departments of surgery and internal medicine. The second objective was to identify problem areas in cooperation between nurses and physicians from the perspective of nursing management in departments of surgery and internal medicine, and the third objective was to find out the way the nursing management tackles problem situations in cooperation between nurses and physicians in departments of surgery and internal medicine. To meet these objectives four research questions were stated: 1. In what areas do nurses and physicians cooperate during the nursing process while providing care for patients from the perspective of nursing management in their respective departments? 2. How do nurses assess and perceive cooperation with physicians from the perspective of nursing management in their respective departments? 3. Are there problem areas in cooperation of nurses and physicians from the perspective of nursing management in their respective departments? 4. How does nursing management tackle problem situations in cooperation between nurses and physicians in their respective departments? The research was conducted in the hospital, where I was given information under the condition of anonymity of the respondents interviewed. The responders were chief nurses and senior staff nurses working in departments of surgery and internal medicine. The investigation conducted is a qualitative research. Interviews with the structure of questions to non-standardized interviews were conducted with the respondents according to question structures of the non-standardized interview. Subsequently, transcripts of interviews and data categorization in tables according to the Ritchie and Spencer´s framework analysis were made. The survey suggests the following conclusions. Nurses and physicians cooperate within the nursing process in providing care for patients from the perspective of nursing management in departments of surgery and internal medicine at the stage of problem solving. Nurses appreciate cooperation with physicians on the basis of mutual respect, but they still feel the prevailing dominance of physicians. From the perspective of nursing management there are problematic areas in cooperation between nurses and physicians. Nursing management tackles problem situation in cooperation between nurses and physicians by seeking common solutions. It will be possible to provide the health care facilities, where the research was conducted, with the outcomes of the research. Thinking about the possible improvement in mutual cooperation as early as during physicians´ and nurses´ studies, to introduce various measures to improve cooperation between nurses and physicians by organizing joint seminars and cultural events could lead to meeting the purpose. It is necessary to raise physicians´ awareness of nursing process and to carry out further research on this topic.

Abstract Diploma thesis deals with the issue of community care in psychiatry and its objective is to describe the importance of a nurse in providing this care. Community psychiatric care is a very wide area of an intermediary patient assistance designed to help the patients in any areas of their lives. Although in the Czech Republic community care has not achieved the appropriate development yet, its benefits for patients are important now and its importance has been growing. In the theoretical part, after a brief introduction to community care issues, history, principles, but also community care connection with nursing care, are mentioned. Subsequently, attention is paid to particular areas of community care that are important for the mentally ill and the role of a nurse in these areas is described. The approach to the mentally ill, the issue of stigmatization and psychiatric care organizations are mentioned. In the theoretical are part, psychiatric illnesses that may occur in community care are also analyzed and it is explained how community care may be beneficial for psychiatric patients. In the practical part, the objective was to find out the level of psychiatric nurses´ awareness of community care and to determine if they see the sense of community care in psychiatry. Making a survey of community care in which nurses can be involved was another objective of the work. The nurses´ responses to the stated hypotheses were statistically analyzed within quantitative research. The purpose of hypotheses stated was to determine whether nurses with the work experience longer than ten years are more likely to believe that psychiatric care is more beneficial for patients than hospitalization., And also, if nurses with an education higher than secondary have better awareness of community services provision. Other hypotheses were focused on finding out whether nurses consider the most common community care services issue in the Czech Republic to be housing promotion and if nurses aged over thirty years are more aware of the nurses´ role importance in community care. None of those hypotheses were confirmed. The hypothesis assuming that nurses obtain more information on community care from the Internet and literature than at workshops was confirmed. Psychiatric nurses working in mental homes in the South Moravian region and the Vysočina region took part in this research. A component of the practical part is also an analysis of community services in these regions. In both the regions 13 civic associations and community centers were mapped.

Even though it has been managed to concentrate deliveries of premature infants to the perinatal centres thanks to the ?in utero? (before-delivery) transports in recent years, there are still a certain number of newborn infants who are born outside the centres and, thus, it is required to transport them to the specialized departments. The transport of a newborn infant is characterized with special therapeutic procedures and it requires different equipment for providing intensive or resuscitation care and it is provided by transport service for newborn infants that is an integral part of the regional system of the differentiated care of newborn infants. The objective of the diploma thesis is: Objective 1: To characterize current provision of neonatal transport services. Objective 2: To map the role of nursing staff when providing neonatal transport service. Objective 3: To find out if nurses deliver care by nursing process when providing neonatal transport service. A hypothesis and research questions were defined on the basis of these results. Hypothesis 1: Presence of a nurse when providing neonatal transport service is important. Research question 1: What is the role of a nurse when providing neonatal transport service? Research question 2: How is the nursing process applied when providing neonatal transport service? The investigation proved the hypothesis and the research questions were answered. The goal of the thesis was met. The standard ?Nursing Care of Newborn Infants during Transport? is the result of the diploma thesis.

This thesis adverts to an educational problems of parents, how do they perceive manner and content of information presented, how do they adapt to their child?s disease, what do they lack and what restricts them from satisfying their needs. Complex care for small patients suffering from musculoskeletal disorder should also encompass a degree of care towards parents. A nurse must, likewise, refer to their needs, knowledge, attitude, care about their mental condition, and provide them during the whole time with professional help and mental encouragement throughout coping with their difficult and demanding life situation, which the disease, the musculoskeletal disorder of their child, undoubtedly is. An outlook of nurses of this problem is also a part of this thesis.

abstract: Rapid advance in sensor and information technology has resulted in both spatially and temporally data-rich environment, which creates a pressing need for us to develop novel statistical methods and the associated computational tools to extract intelligent knowledge and informative patterns from these massive datasets. The statistical challenges for addressing these massive datasets lay in their complex structures, such as high-dimensionality, hierarchy, multi-modality, heterogeneity and data uncertainty. Besides the statistical challenges, the associated computational approaches are also considered essential in achieving efficiency, effectiveness, as well as the numerical stability in practice. On the other hand, some recent developments in statistics and machine learning, such as sparse learning, transfer learning, and some traditional methodologies which still hold potential, such as multi-level models, all shed lights on addressing these complex datasets in a statistically powerful and computationally efficient way. In this dissertation, we identify four kinds of general complex datasets, including "high-dimensional datasets", "hierarchically-structured datasets", "multimodality datasets" and "data uncertainties", which are ubiquitous in many domains, such as biology, medicine, neuroscience, health care delivery, manufacturing, etc. We depict the development of novel statistical models to analyze complex datasets which fall under these four categories, and we show how these models can be applied to some real-world applications, such as Alzheimer's disease research, nursing care process, and manufacturing. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Industrial Engineering 2012

Bakgrund: Mammor till barn som vårdas på intensivvårdsavdelning för nyfödda upplever ofta stress och oro relaterat till barnens ohälsa, en förlossning de ej varit förberedda på, den avancerade medicinska behandling barnets tillstånd kräver samt att en del av omvårdnaden kring barnet tas ifrån dem. Dessa känslor påverkar deras, och indirekt barnens, hälsa negativt. Syfte: Syftet med studien är att beskriva mammors upplevelser av det första mötet med sina barn på intensivvårdsavdelning för nyfödda samt att identifiera områden som enligt mammorna kan förbättras. Metod: En deskriptiv enkätstudie som analyserats med kvalitativ innehållsanalys samt en kvantitativ del där deskriptiv statistik använts för analys. Resultat: De flesta mammor upplevde det första mötet med sitt barn som känslofyllt med både positiva och negativa känslor samt att upplevelsen av mötet påverkades av en rad faktorer. De beskrivna upplevelserna och de faktorer som påverkade dessa placerades efter analys under kategorierna ”Mötet med barnet”, ”Att vara på intensivvårdsavdelning för nyfödda” samt ”Att bli mamma”. Slutsats: Faktorer som påverkade det första mötet med barnet positivt var att få vara nära barnet, personalens hjälp, adekvat information, bra samarbete mellan avdelningar samt hjälp från BB-personalen. Det som påverkade negativt var separation från barnet, otillräcklig information, en stressig avdelningsmiljö, den medicinska utrustningen som barnets vård krävde samt ohälsa hos mamman. / Background: Mothers of children cared for in the neonatal intensive care unit often experience stress and anxiety related to their children’s poor health, the advanced medical treatment the child requires and the fact that the care of their children partly is taken away from them. These feelings affect their, as well as their children’s, health negatively. Objective: This study aims to describe mothers’ experiences of the first encounter with their child at the neonatal intensive care unit as well as to identify areas that, according to the mothers, can be improved. Method: A descriptive survey study analysed by a qualitative content analysis and a quantitative part analysed with descriptive statistics. Results: Most mothers experienced the first encounter with their child as both positive and negative and the experience of the encounter was affected by a number of factors. The described experiences and the affecting factors were identified in the categories “The encounter with the child”, “Being at the neonatal unit” and “Becoming a mother”. Conclusion: The factors that, according to the mothers, affected the experience of the first encounter with their child positively were being close to the child, the help from the personnel, information, good cooperation between units and help from the staff at the maternity unit. The factors that had a negative effect on the experience of the encounter were separation from the child, insufficient information, a stressful unit environment, the medical equipment required by the child’s care and the mothers’ poor health.

O propósito desta investigação foi identificar e analisar os incidentes positivos e negativos, que envolveram a exposição corporal do cliente e a invasão da sua privacidade durante a assistência em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva, visto que para a realização de vários cuidados e procedimentos a nudez parcial ou total é inevitável. A população constitui-se de 15 enfermeiras lotadas em UTIs de atendimento ao adulto, no município de Maringá - PR. Como procedimento metodológico empregou-se a Técnica do Incidente Crítico (TIC), obtendo-se 30 relatos, 15 positivos e 15 negativos, dos quais extraíram-se 22 incidentes críticos positivos (ICP) e 30 negativos (ICN). Estes foram compilados em 6 categorias denominadas como Necessidades Básicas, Admissão e Permanência na UTI, Procedimentos Terapêuticos, Avaliação Física, Horário de Visita e Manifestação da Sexualidade. Os comportamentos da equipe de saúde extraídos dos incidentes críticos foram agrupados em 5 categorias, constituindo-se em Questão de Gênero, Proteção e Manutenção da Privacidade, Atitudes do Profissional, Orientação ao Cliente e Orientação à Equipe de Saúde. Da mesma forma, os comportamentos dos clientes identificados foram distribuídos em 3 categorias, definidas como Questão de Gênero, Proteção e Manutenção da Privacidade e Atitudes do Cliente. As conseqüências para a equipe de saúde e para os clientes oriundas dos incidentes constituíram 4 categorias, formuladas como Sentimentos Negativos, Sentimentos Positivos, Prejuízo na Qualidade da Assistência e Garantia da Qualidade da Assistência. A interpretação dos resultados evidenciou que a categoria de situação mais freqüente nos ICP foi Necessidades Básicas (21,2%) e entre os ICN foi Admissão e Permanência na UTI (15,4%). A categoria de comportamento da equipe de saúde que prevaleceu nos ICP (41,1%) e nos ICN (41,4%) foi Proteção e Manutenção da Privacidade, ao passo que a categoria de comportamento dos clientes predominante entre os ICP foi Questão de Gênero (45,1%) e nos ICN foi Proteção e Manutenção da Privacidade (59,6%). A categoria de conseqüência mais freqüente para a equipe de saúde entre os ICP foi Garantia da Qualidade da Assistência (41,1%) e para os clientes foram os Sentimentos Positivos (37,6%), evidenciando-se que prevaleceram Sentimentos Negativos nos ICN para a equipe de saúde (41,5%) e para os clientes (57,3%). Verificou-se melhor preparo da enfermagem para contornar problemas relacionados ao atendimento das necessidades básicas, porém denota-se despreparo e falta de habilidade para lidar com a maioria das situações. Constatou-se que equipe de saúde e clientes, principalmente a enfermagem, manifesta os mesmos sentimentos frente à exposição corporal do cliente durante a assistência. Evidenciou-se que os aspectos que garantem melhor qualidade à assistência para ambos são proteção da intimidade, respeito, confiança, orientação e compreensão da mesma, ao passo que as que mais prejudicam a qualidade da assistência são desproteção e invasão da intimidade, desconsideração do profissional pelo cliente e dificuldade da equipe em lidar com algumas situações. Denotam-se como fatores complicadores, a diferença de gênero entre cuidador e cliente e a disposição dos leitos nestas unidades, predispondo o cliente à exposição e dificultando o resguardo da privacidade. Emergiu a necessidade de se preparar melhor a equipe para contornar situações de conflito oriundas da exposição corporal, devendo-se considerar os aspectos sócio-culturais das pessoas envolvidas. Por fim, ressalta-se que a compreensão dos aspectos que permeiam a exposição corporal na esfera do cuidado é imprescindível quando se tem por objetivo a humanização no contexto da assistência à saúde. / This study aimed at identifying and analyzing positive and negative incidents involving clients’ physical exposure and the invasion of their privacy during caregiving in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) resulting from the need of partial or total nudity for the performance of various types of care and procedures. The population consisted of 15 nurses working in the ICU for adults in the city of Maringá – PR, Brazil. The Critical Incident Technique (CIT) was used as a methodological procedure, thus obtaining 30 accounts of which 15 were positive and 15 were negative. From these, 22 positive critical incidents (PCIs) and 30 negative critical incidents (NCIs) were extracted. The incidents were compiled in 6 categories: basic needs, admission and permanence in the ICU, therapeutic procedures, physical evaluation, visiting hours and sexuality manifestation. The behaviors presented by the health team which were extracted from the critical incidents were grouped in 5 categories: gender-related questions, privacy protection and maintenance, attitudes from professionals, client orientation and health team orientation. The identified client’s behaviors were distributed in 3 categories defined as gender-related questions, protection and maintenance of clients’ privacy and attitudes. The outcomes to the health team and clients stemming from the incidents comprised four categories formulated as negative feelings, positive feelings, impairment of caregiving quality and assurance of caregiving quality. The interpretation of results showed that the most frequent situation category in the PCIs was basic needs (21.2%), whereas in the NCIs, it was admission and permanence in the ICU (15.4%). The health team’s behavior category which prevailed in the PCIs (41.1%) and in the NCIs (41.4%) was privacy protection and maintenance. The predominant clients’ behavior category in the PCIs was gender-related questions (45.1%) and in the NCIs it was privacy protection and maintenance (59.6%). The health team’s most frequent consequence category in the PCIs was assurance of caregiving quality (41.1%), and the clients’ was positive feelings (37.6%). It was also shown that the category negative feelings prevailed in the NCIs for the health team (41. 5%) as well as for clients (57.3%). It was verified that the nursing staff was better prepared to deal with problems related to meeting basic needs; however, lack of preparation and skills to manage most situations was also observed. It was found that the health team and clients, particularly the nursing staff, showed similar feelings concerning the client’s physical exposure during caregiving. Additionally, it was shown that the aspects ensuring better caregiving quality to both were intimacy protection, respect, trust, orientation and understanding with regard to such protection, whereas those which most frequently impaired caregiving quality were lack of protection, intimacy invasion, disregard of clients by the professionals and the team’s difficulty in dealing with certain situations. Gender difference between the caregiver and the client was noted as a complicating factor in addition to the arrangement of beds in the units, which predisposes the client to exposure and impairs privacy protection. The need to better prepare the health team to cope with conflict situations stemming from physical exposure arose, while the sociocultural aspects of the individuals involved must be taken into account. Finally, it is pointed out that understanding the aspects which permeate physical exposure in the realms of caregiving is essential if the humanization of health care settings is to be achieved.

Estudo exploratório e descritivo de abordagem qualitativa sobre a utilização da CIPESC® nas consultas de enfermagem, como ferramenta para reconhecimento e enfrentamento das necessidades em saúde das crianças. Ancorado na Teoria da Intervenção Práxica da Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva e nos conceitos de necessidades em saúde sob a perspectiva do materialismo histórico e dialético. Objetivou conhecer as possibilidades e limites da CIPESC® para reconhecer e enfrentar as necessidades de saúde da população infantil; descrever o perfil demográfico e epidemiológico da população curitibana com destaque para os indicadores relativos às crianças, seu crescimento, desenvolvimento e ocorrência de violência infantil; identificar as políticas e os programas de saúde adotados pelo município e o sistema de informação em saúde; analisar o potencial da nomenclatura CIPESC® Curitiba no reconhecimento e enfrentamento das necessidades em saúde, a partir dos diagnósticos e intervenções; verificar as potencialidades e os limites do uso da CIPESC® na consulta de enfermagem à criança. O cenário de estudo foi o município de Curitiba-PR. Os dados foram coletados em fontes primárias e secundárias. Para a coleta dos dados primários utilizou-se da técnica de estudo de caso. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram 28 enfermeiros da atenção básica do município, que aceitaram participar do estudo por meio de instrumento de coleta de dados pela web, disponibilizado em página própria, desenvolvido em linguagem ASP.NET, com Framework 3.5 e o banco de dados utilizado foi o MySQL 5.1.30. Os resultados mostraram que as condições demográfica, de saneamento básico, educação e políticas de saúde são favoráveis à superação dos agravos à saúde. A organização da atenção à saúde tem alcançado bons indicadores epidemiológicos, mas ainda está pautada em referenciais de risco, na contra-mão do que propõe a saúde coletiva e a epidemiologia social, com consultas individualizadas e focadas nas questões biológicas do sujeito. A CIPESC® mostrou potencialidades para o reconhecimento de necessidades a partir dos diagnósticos e intervenções de sua nomenclatura mas a base representa apenas parte das necessidades expressas pelos indivíduos, não abrangendo uma abordagem integral dos processos de desgaste e fortalecimento. A discussão dos dados possibilitou identificar possíveis causas para os limites da CIPESC® como a adoção da teoria das necessidades humanas básicas como organizadora da nomenclatura, a assistência pautada em referenciais de risco e a formação dos profissionais direcionada ao modelo biomédico de atenção à saúde. A atenção às necessidades em saúde da população infantil ainda permanece como um desafio e um caminho que está sendo trilhado, em passos tímidos, sendo primordial que os processos de trabalho se ajustem às necessidades em saúde da população, utilizando-se da intersetorialidade, interdisciplinaridade, trabalho em equipe; buscando a efetiva transformação da realidade e superação de contradições e tendo as necessidades e vulnerabilidades como objetos de assistência. Todos esses aspectos devem fazer parte do cotidiano dos profissionais de saúde, com práticas consolidadas e direcionadas às transformações que a realidade precisa sofrer. / This exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study on the use of CIPESC® in nursing consultation, as a tool for recognizing and addressing child health needs and was based on the Theory Nursing Praxis Interventions in Collective Health and on the concepts of health needs under the perspective of historical and dialectical materialism. The study aimed to understand the possibilities and limits of CIPESC® (International Nursing Practice Classification in Collective Health) to recognize and address the health needs of the child population; to describe the demographic and epidemiological profile of the population from Curitiba with emphasis to indicators related to children, their growth, development and the occurrence of child violence; to identify health policies and programs adopted by the city and the health information system; to analyze the potential of the nomenclature CIPESC® Curitiba in recognizing and addressing health needs, from diagnosis and interventions; to determine the potentialities and limits of using CIPESC® in nursing consultation to child. The study was carried out in Curitiba, state of Paraná, Brazil. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources. Case study was used to collect primary data. Subjects were 28 nurses from the citys basic health care system, who agreed to participate in the study through a web-based data collection instrument, available at a specific webpage, developed using ASP.NET with Framework 3.5 and using MySQL 5.1.30 database. Results showed that the demographic, sanitation, education and health policies conditions are favorable to overcoming health problems. The organization of health care has achieved good epidemiological indicators, but it is still grounded on risk references, in counter to what is proposed by public health and social epidemiology, with individual consultations and focused on subjects biological issues. CIPESC® showed potential for the recognition of needs from diagnosis and interventions of its nomenclature, but the ground represents only part of the needs expressed by individuals, not encompassing a comprehensive approach of the processes of wear and strengthening. The discussion of data enabled to identify possible causes for the limits of CIPESC®, such as the adoption of the theory of basic human needs as the organizer of the nomenclature, care grounded in risk referencials and training of professionals guided by the biomedical health care model. The attention to child health needs remains as a challenge and a path that is being tread, at timid steps, in great need that the work processes fit the health needs of the population, using intersectoral and interdisciplinary arrangements, teamwork, seeking the effective change of reality and overcome of contradictions, with needs and vulnerabilities as objects of care. All these aspects should be part of health professionals daily practice, with consolidated practices which are directed to the changes needed in reality.