This pilot study explored the effect of mindfulness meditation for diabetic neuropathy. Twenty participants (10 in each group) completed the study. No significant differences were found between the groups. However, differences between the means were found on 2 constructs: pain quality of life and symptom-related quality of life. Further studies may show efficacy.

Objective: To discuss the challenges and perspectives of nursing education in times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Reflection study, with theoretical approach based on national and international publications, allied to the experience of researchers in the area of nursing education. Results: Four sections are identified: Nursing education: current affairs and perspectives; Education and technologies in time of pandemic: acceleration, alteration and paralysis; Difference between emergency, intentional and remote teaching; the return to the “new normality”: new structuring axes and legal norms. Final considerations: The conclusion is that longstanding challenges have emerged with the pandemic, and the processes of acceleration, change and paralysis have marked education in these times. Moreover, epidemiological, technological and psychological aspects should be more valued in the return to activities.

INTRODUÇÃOConhecer a realidade da educação em enfermagem, sua trajetória, tendências e as contradições que a perpassam é decisivo. Mas exige apropriação qualificada, matizada pela reflexão das conseqüências éticas destas tendências.Nesse entendimento, foram tomadas como base referencial, as Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais do Curso de Graduação em Enfermagem, documentos emanados do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas (INEP/MEC), Censo da Educação Superior e ENADE.Os dados do Enade se constituem em um dos indicadores de qualidade dos cursos de graduação. Os dados do Censo Escolar possibilitam compreender a situação dos cursos no país, com seus desequilíbrios regionais, permitindo levar em conta estes cenários na interpretação dos resultados dos exames. Os dados do questionário do Enade, respondido pelos ingressantes e concluintes dos cursos, tentam capturar seu perfil sócio-cultural-econômico para favorecer um tratamento adequado dos cursos a estas variáveis.Os ABSTRACT The text analyzes the path of the education in nursing in Brazil and analyzes the trends of the diploma courses (1991-2004) and describes a profile of the nursing graduation students that participated in the National Exam of Courses (ENADE), in 2004. To draw the referred profile 18 partner-family indicators and the respondents of the student's questionnaire academics they used. Some perspectives and challenges are pointed to the education in nursing in the country, with views to subsidize educators and students in his/her academic practice.Descriptors: Nursing; Nursing, education; Education, nursing, diploma programs. (1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004) RESUMEN El texto analiza el camino de la educación de enfermeria en Brasil y las tendencias de los cursos del grado

The study aims to build a general overview of the Nursing Graduation Programs in Brazil, in the decade of the National Curriculum Guidelines for Nursing Graduation, period 2001-2011. This is an exploratory, descriptive study, based on data from the e-MEC, Higher Education Census, ENADE. The results evidenced: the privatization of the Nursing Graduation Programs, the oversupply of courses and places day and night; sharp expansion of the number of vacancies for distance learning, not meeting the minimum quality criteria evaluated by ENADE, among other respects. It is recommended that strategies for the regulation of the expansion already installed must be defined, in addition to the revision of indicators drawn from the INEP Single Form, to meet the necessities of nursing, as an specific area, particularly with regard to: the number of vacancies, integration with the local and regional health system and the SUS, education in health care, teaching practical activities, working arrangements and experience of the faculty of the course. It is recommended, though, the immediate intervention of the MEC in the poles of Distance Education, suspending the training of nurses in that modality of education.

Objective: to know the praxis of nurses in the hospital context and, from this, to define a concept about Care-Educational Technologies. Method: qualitative, exploratory-descriptive research, developed in a university hospital in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil, with 21 nurses (non-probabilistic sampling), through non-participant observation and semi-structured interview, conducted from March to December 2015. Records were analyzed through content analysis. Results: the results showed that in the context of nurses' work, it is possible to deduce care-educational possibilities, based on the person-person, person-tool and/or person-universe relationship. The concept was defined based on the intertwining of caring-training and training-caring for oneself and other people. Final considerations: the reflections point to the need to develop or strengthen the autonomy of those involved in the health-disease process. This is based on the empowerment of people under their lives' conditions, in their multidimensionality, within human praxis.