Objective: to evaluate the acquisition of knowledge of nurses in the nursing consultation on communication with blind patients. Methods: evaluation research, carried out by questionnaires applied before and after the experience of an educational program of an e-learning course. We used Contextual Lexical Analysis software for a Set of Text Segments for lexical analysis of the data. Results: 24 nurses participated in the pre-test and 11 in the test. Before the course, there was limited dominance in the thematic, especially in the non-verbal form. There was a predominance of the use of speech and writing in the nursing consultation. After the course, elements, we observe the apprehension of forms and functions of verbal communication; Improvment of non-verbal theories dominance; And their applications in the consultation with blind patients. Conclusion: the educational program allowed the nurses to acquire knowledge of verbal and non-verbal communication with blind patients in the nursing consultation in primary care.

The study aims to verify the performance of nursing team, with the mothers, before the process of breastfeeding and prevention of breastfeeding problems, in the rooming in a reference maternity hospital, in the city of Juazeiro do Norte, CE, Brazil. Descriptive study with qualitative approach in which respondents were eight professionals of the nursing team, the data were analyzed and categorized. The main difficulties in implementing the actions were: the resistance of the mothers to accept the guidelines of the nursing team, insufficient quantity of professionals, lack of continuous training for professionals, and inadequate infrastructure. Therefore, it is necessary that the rooming health professionals have a commitment to have updated knowledge and put it into practice, as well as develop strategies to have the mothers´ confidence thus allowing them to breastfeed more safely.