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Objective: To describe the most common types of wounds indicated for hyperbaric oxygen therapy and the results., Method: Cross-sectional study at a Hyperbaric Centre in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The medical records of 200 patients treated with hyperbaric oxygen were reviewed from January to November 2013. The variables of the persons, clinical, indications, number of sessions and wound care were analysed by means of descriptive statistics and the chi-square test of association incorporating Yates's correction with a level of 5%., Results: The wounds that were most frequently indicated for hyperbaric oxygen therapy were venous ulcers, traumatic injury and diabetic foot. Patients with chronic wounds had fewer sessions (61.1%) and their wounds healed or were reduced (62.0%) compared to those with acute wounds., Conclusion: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is an effective treatment for patients with chronic wounds.

Objective to analyze the strategies used by nurses to promote teamwork in a hospital emergency room. Method qualitative case study research with 20 nurses in the emergency unit of a university hospital in southern Brazil. Data were collected between June and September 2009 through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results the strategies used by the nurses to promote teamwork in the emergency unit were articulating professional actions; establishing relationships of cooperation; building and maintaining friendly ties; and managing conflict. Conclusion nurses notably make the connections between the practices of the health teams and mediate the relationships established between health professionals to improve care practices.

The current study has the objective of learning and understanding how Community Health Agents conceptualize, develop and perform strategies to counter violence against women attending the Family Health Strategies in a northeastern municipality of Rio Grande do Sul. It is an exploratory research, utilizing a descriptive and qualitative approach, carried out with 35 Community Health Agents. Semi-structured interviews were performed to collect the data, which were analyzed using the thematic model. Conceptions of violence against women are centered around violence as a social construction based on gender inequalities and on violence as having a multifactorial construction. Regarding care practices and interventions to counter violence, the following tools are highlighted construction of intervention strategies within the staff forming bonds, listening and dialogue with the women victims of violence; and directing victims to support services. We believe that this study contributes to the visibility of this theme as a need in health care, as well as for the construction of strategies to counter it.

The current study is aimed at getting to know and analyzing the work process of community health agents (CHA) from a municipality of the Northeastern region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul through a qualitative approach. The collection of data was carried out by means of a semi-structured interview applied to 23 CHAs. The Thematic Content Analysis was utilized for the data analysis. The results evidenced some possibilities, such as: communication with the participating families, establishing bonds, and recognition of/satisfaction towards the professional agent by the community; and among some of the limits were: difficulty to perform team work; difficulty to perform collective tasks in the community; low salary/work overload and lack of qualification. Evidence shows the need of reorganizing the work process of these professionals with higher investment in education and instrumentation by adopting a permanent educational policy.

The following study aimed at analyzing the conceptions of basic health units' professionals on the service rendered to users with violence situations, within their different manifestations. It is a qualitative research conducted with nurses, doctors, nursing technicians, and communitarian health agents through semi-structured interviews. The set of data was collected from October 2007 and March 2008 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and analyzed through theme analysis. The professionals have a role in identifying situations of violence and in elaborating intervention strategies aiming users' welfare through the recovery of physical and mental health. The break of the violence assistance net, lack of security, lack of capable professionals, and inadequate infrastructure are some of the factors that jeopardize the service. The results might support the elaboration of public policies that help the identification, gathering and assistance to individuals in violence situations.

This study aimed at identifying, according to the perception of nurses working in the Family Health Program, the difficult and the easy aspects of their daily routine. This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 23 nurses. Data were submitted to thematic analysis. Results showed that nurses perceive team work as a practice for integration and cooperation among professionals. However, there are many factors that interfere in the team's actions, and therefore, interfere in their development and results.

It is about a thematic reflection regarding the current panorama of Nursing and the interdisciplinary issue in Health. It aims at reflecting and discussing about the Nursing practice and its production of scientific knowledge, as well as its influence in the relation with other jobs in the health area. For that, the interdisciplinary relations that exist between Nursing and several other health professions are approached. Finally, some suggestions are made for both the Nursing Graduation and Post-graduation courses as well as for the professionals of this field, with the objective of improving the teaching and the professional practices.

This paper highlights a few aspects of health promotion and education that enable reasoning over the pertinence of the work developed with groups in the community. Group work makes it possible breaking the traditional vertical relationship between the health professional and the subject of his/her action. It is also a strategy that facilitates the expression of individual and collective needs, expectations and life circumstances that influence health.