Objectives: to identify the errors in daily intensive nursing care and analyze them according to the theory of human error. Method: quantitative, descriptive and exploratory study, undertaken at the Intensive Care Center of a hospital in the Brazilian Sentinel Hospital Network. The participants were 36 professionals from the nursing team. The data were collected through semistructured interviews, observation and lexical analysis in the software ALCESTE(r). Results: human error in nursing care can be related to the approach of the system, through active faults and latent conditions. The active faults are represented by the errors in medication administration and not raising the bedside rails. The latent conditions can be related to the communication difficulties in the multiprofessional team, lack of standards and institutional routines and absence of material resources. Conclusion: the errors identified interfere in nursing care and the clients' recovery and can cause damage. Nevertheless, they are treated as common events inherent in daily practice. The need to acknowledge these events is emphasized, stimulating the safety culture at the institution.

Qualitative research whose objective was to understand the social representations of the body by women with alterations caused by leprosy, for nursing care can meet more broadly to your needs. The theoretical framework was the social representations. Forty-three women participated, all of them from a reference unit specialized in sanitary dermatology. Interviews were conducted, which contents were processed by the software ALCESTE, generating a class whose words were associated with preconception anchored in the negative perception of leprosy. The explanatory framework of social representations showed a strong brand of the social memory of leprosy, whose symbolic construction sustains itself on fear of the disease. It was concluded on the need to invest in the deconstruction of archaic beliefs about leprosy so that to have new ways of acting towards the disease.

The present study aimed at studying the social representations of the sexual life of climacteric women. Its theoretical-methodological referential was based on the Theory of Social Representations. Study participants were 40 women between 45 and 65 years of age, who were divided into two groups: perimenopause and postmenopause. Scenarios were two public units of health services for women in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. Data were collected through the semistructured interview technique and treated according to the analysis of thematic content. Results indicated three representation fields. Two fields emerged in the perimenopause group: continuity of sensuality and sexuality, and representation of the negativity in climacteric leading to a sexual life without pleasure. The postmenopause group was organized into one representational field: sexual life based on the aging process. The authors concluded that the representations regarding sexual life in climacteric are being redesigned by some women despite many conceptions that still persist in association with traditional socio-historical-cultural values regarding women and the aging process.

Descriptive study, qualitative, that aimed to capture the content of social representations of puerperal women on health education in pregnancy and postpartum in primary health care. Users were 31 Family Health Centers in Fortaleza, Ceará, over 18 years in the postpartum period, with at least six visits to prenatal and one postpartum consultation. It was held a lexical analysis of data from semi-structured interviews with the software ALCESTE. The representations of puerperal women on health education are linked to institutional educational practices, with emphasis on lectures, family and school education, and community education. It predominate the traditional pedagogy, with the transmission of information, punctual and widespread. It is necessary to change the pedagogical logic, expanding educational groups with knowledge sharing.

Objective: To analyze the consequences of intimate partner violence, from the perspective of women, as an intervention proposal for nurses in health care. Methods: Qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research. Theoretical framework supported by Levine's Nursing Theory. Sixteen women who had experienced intimate partner violence participated in the study. The Collective Subject Discourse was used for the analysis. Results: The consequences of violence against women were sleep disorders, improper diet, lack of energy, body aches, bruises, abrasions, panic attacks, sadness, loneliness and low self-esteem, constituting psychoemotional and physical harm. Conclusion: Assaults upon the integrity of women were evidenced, based on Levine's conservational principles, in terms of conservation of energy and conservation of structural, personal and social integrity, where the intervention of the nurse is essential for support, promotion and rehabilitation of women's health. ResumoObjetivo: Analisar as consequências da violência contra a mulher praticada pelo companheiro, na perspectiva das mulheres, como proposta de intervenção do enfermeiro na atenção à saúde. Métodos: Pesquisa qualitativa, descritiva e exploratória. Referencial teórico sustentado pela Teoria de Enfermagem de Levine. Participaram 16 mulheres que vivenciaram violência pelo companheiro íntimo. Para análise, utilizou-se o Discurso do Sujeito Coletivo. Resultados: As consequências da violência à mulher foram distúrbios do sono, alimentação inadequada, falta de energia, dores pelo corpo, hematomas, escoriações, síndrome do pânico, tristeza, solidão e baixa autoestima, que determinaram danos psicoemocionais e físicos. Conclusão: Foram constatados agravos à integridade da mulher frente aos princípios da conservação de Levine na conservação de energia e integridade estrutural, pessoal e social, considerando a intervenção do enfermeiro essencial ao apoio, à promoção e à reabilitação da saúde da mulher.