Fluminense Federal University Research Articles

Consumo cultural e espaços sociais: os vestibulandos das universidades públicas na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, 1990

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar a associação entre capital cultural e estilos de vida entre os vestibulandos de quatro universidades públicas da cidade do Rio de Janeiro em 1990. A questão analítica é: quais seriam os espaços sociais e as práticas de consumo cultural no grupo de análise? Os dados aqui analisados consistem na pesquisa sóciocultural aplicada aos citados vestibulandos do finado Vestibular Integrado, que uniu a UFRJ, a UFFRJ, a UFF, a UERJ e a ENCE/IBGE entre 1988-1990. A análise dos dados revela que a relação entre o consumo literário, as práticas culturais e as desigualdades sociais produz a segmentação do público pré-universitário em três macro segmentos. O primeiro consiste nos estudantes com grande capital cultural, mas que não têm necessariamente tantos recursos financeiros quanto os relativos ao seu respectivo acesso à cultura. O segundo reside nos vestibulandos com parco acesso ao consumo cultural, enquanto o terceiro, e intermediário, segmento é composto pelos que têm características comuns ao primeiro e ao segundo grupos citados. Principal conclusão deste estudo consiste na percepção de que, mesmo entre aqueles estudantes que conseguiram chegar à etapa pré-universitária, persistem significativas desigualdades no acesso a bens culturais, o que acaba refletindo na percepção dos estudantes sobre o papel do curso superior e do mercado de trabalho.

The professional master in nursing: an new opportunity for brazilian nurse and an improvement in quality for the healthcare instituition

The role of nurse with Master Degree represents an challenge career opportunity for professional nurses. Currently, there are only 2 Professional Master in Nursing in Brazil, one is at São Paulo Federal University (SP) and the other, recently created, is at Fluminense Federal University (RJ). At the Fluminense Federal University, the Professional Master in Nursing includes course work and clinical experience in advanced health assessment, physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology, as well as research, nursing theories, health promotion and disease prevention, healthcare policy, health and culture, diagnostic reasoning, and clinical decision making. In addition to course work, nurses are required to publish an original article and to produce a dissertation. The Professional Master in Nursing encompass a 2 year program of study with specialized clinical experiences. Advanced clinical education and experience based on scientifc evidences have been identified as requirements for practice as a nurse with Professional Master Degree. The nursing practice has recently expanded as a result of changes occurring in health care settings, including increased acuity of hospitalized patients, demands of management hability to reduce length of stay and to coordinate patient/family care. The scope of practice for nurses with a Professional Master Degree is broad-based and involves, mainly, providing advanced nursing care to patients and their families according to the practice setting and patient population. For example, it may comprehend also therapeutic procedure work, aspects of case management, discharge planning, monitoring quality standards, clinical research, undergraduate preceptorship, and inservice education of nursing staff for the instituition. The Professional Master in Nursing at the Fluminense Federal University will offer a unique advanced practice opportunity for nurses to develop their nursing careers and for healthcare institutions and nursing faculties to improve the quality of their services.

Percepção do racismo no Rio de Janeiro

Analisa os resultados de uma pesquisa de opinião realizada pelo Centro de Articulação de Populações Marginalizadas (CEAP) e Núcleo de Pesquisas, Informações e Políticas Públicas da Universidade Federal Fluminense (DATAUFF), de 28 de janeiro a 13 de abril de 2000, sobre relações raciais no Rio de Janeiro. A partir daí, aponta as limitações de uma abordagem individualista do racismo, as dificuldades enfrentadas por pesquisas empíricas voltadas para a mensuração do preconceito racial, e sugere alguns temas que poderiam ser incluídos na agenda dos estudos sobre o racismo no Brasil. Um conjunto amplo de temas foi investigado pelo CEAP-DATAUFF, buscando não somente mensurar o preconceito racial no Rio de Janeiro, mas também abordando outros temas presentes na atual agenda de debate sobre relações raciais no Brasil, tais como: identidade racial, percepção sobre os determinantes da situação do negro no Brasil, desigualdade racial, casamento inter-racial, mestiçagem, voto étnico, outros preconceitos na sociedade contra pobres, favelados, mulheres, nordestinos e homossexuais, aspirações sociais segundo raça, posicionamento da população fluminense frente às propostas de implantação de políticas de ação afirmativa.

The Professional Master in Nursing at the Fluminense Federal University Nursing School will begin in 2004

The Professional Master in Nursing at the Fluminense Federal University Nursing School will begin in 2004

Darwin na Serra da Tiririca: caminhos entrecruzados entre a biologia e a história

Este artigo apresenta uma experiência de pesquisa, ensino e extensão, realizada por duas professoras da área de biologia e história da Universidade Federal Fluminense, sistematizando os principais passos, conteúdos e resultados da iniciativa. A experiência teve como motivação inicial os relatos de Charles Darwin, quando visitou o Brasil em 1832, particularmente quando, de Niterói, se dirigiu ao norte de Cabo Frio e registrou suas observações em um diário, posteriormente publicado. Como nesses registros se encontravam citados aspectos do ambiente natural e social próximo ao atual Parque Estadual da Serra da Tiririca (região fronteiriça entre os municípios de Niterói e Macaé), procuramos refletir sobre as possibilidades de se estudar o ambiente com vistas ao desenvolvimento de valores, principalmente aqueles ligados à formação de sentimentos de pertencimento e à valorização de um local. Para além da própria importância da presença de Darwin na região, destacamos a necessidade de contextualizar as idéias do autor nos conflitos teóricos e políticos de seu próprio tempo, assim como compreender as palavras de Darwin sobre a natureza e sobre as relações sociais escravistas daquele local e período, como reflexão e estímulo para a criação de sentimentos de pertencimento ao local.

O ensino médico no Brasil e na Argentina: uma abordagem comparativa

This thesis is compound by three articles, the introduction and a conclusion which describes by means of a comparative approach the curriculum reform process of the Medical Course both of Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and University of Buenos Aires (UBA), in the last two decades. In the 1st article, “The biomedical model and the reformulation of the medical curriculum of Federal Fluminense University”, we discuss the construction of the biomedical model. The identified criticism in the curriculum reform model of the Medicine Course of UFF and the analysis of this curricular reform process. In the 2nd article, “The Curriculum Reform Process of UBA”, we present a report of the various curriculum reform attempts in the UBA Medicine Course since the 80’s, the historical and cultural antecedents of the Argentinean and the universitary model interfaces. The 3rd article, “The curriculum reform process of the medical course in Brazil and Argentine: a comparative approach” compares both curriculum reform process, the ones of UFF and UBA, in the educational reform context that both countries have been undergoing and the attempts to adjust the internal needs in Health and Educational areas with the international finance agencies demands.

Evaluating the performance of calculus classes using operational research tools

This paper compares the efficiency of calculus classes. Two kinds of classes are evaluated: the traditional ones and others that use computational methods in teaching. This experiment was performed at Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil, from 1998 to 2000. The emphasis of this paper is on the quantitative evaluation using two operational research tools: multicriteria decision aid methods (mainly using the MACBETH approach) and data envelopment analysis. The evaluating variables are the level at which students enter the university and the performance of the students after studying calculus.

Health and african-brazilian ethnicity research group (HABERG)

Since 1994, the Health and African-Brazilian Ethnicity Research Group is focused on the social determinants of health inequalities. The group was created and is directed by Isabel Cruz, RN, PhD It is based in the Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, Fluminense Federal University (RJ, Brazil). Its aims were to undertake multi-disciplinary social and health science research to advance the understanding of the social processes, particularly the racism, which underlie and mediate socio-economic inequalities in health and to advance the methodology of health inequalities research.These aims are been taking forward through two projects. The project related to the nursing diagnosis chronic low self-esteem and the nursing intervention cultural brokerage is multi-disciplinary, involving collaborators from arts (music, dance, painting, literature), economics, history, psychology, social policy and sociology. The other project is related to the nursing diagnoses and interventions to the hypertensive client and his family. Both projects have a focus on racism and socio-economic inequalities in health, addressing for example ethnic and gender inequalities which are not yet on the scientific and policy agenda of public health.Communication with the users of research has been a priority for the HABERG, which was linked regularly to over 500 users in and beyond Brazil by the NEPAE-NESEN Eletronic Newsletter which provides updates on HABERG activities, researches, and its policy implications. The information on the website (www.uff.br/nepae/NESEN.htm) provides a record of the research group activities.Publications: all HABERG newsletter articles and research reports are displayed on the website www.uff.br/nepae or www.uff.br/nepae/NESEN.htm

Fluminense Federal University - School of Nursing - Faculty position for Visiting Professor

Fluminense Federal University - School of Nursing - Faculty position for Visiting Professor

Fluminense Federal University - School of Nursing - Faculty position for Full Professor in Nursing Administration and Visiting Professor

Fluminense Federal University - School of Nursing - Faculty position for Full Professor in Nursing Administration and Visiting Professor

Fluminense Federal University - School of Nursing - Faculty position for Visiting Professor

Fluminense Federal University - School of Nursing - Faculty position for Visiting Professor

Organization of the Work Based on the Ergonomic Perspective of the Attendances of Collective Emergencies (Catastrophes)

This poster deal with an university project joining Fluminense Federal University and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that seeks the interactive action university/community, having as objective the construction of the knowledge of unexpected situations: the accidents with multiple victims. The present project is about the encounter of the opportunity of creation of a dialogue space between the university and public and private institutions to contribute with the planning of the activities of accident prevention and emergency rescue.

Severity and functional ability scale for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients: preliminar results

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ANOMALIAS DENTÁRIAS EM CRIANÇAS: UM ESTUDO RADIOGRÁFICO

O estudo abrangeu a identificação das anomalias dentárias mais freqüentes observadas através da análise radiográfica de 324 pacientes (04-12 anos), de ambos os sexos, atendidos na FO-UFF entre 1992 e 1996, relacionando-as com sexo, localização, tipo de tratamento realizado e complicações associadas. Uma prevalência de 11,4% foi observada, afetando crianças de 08 a 11 anos, sem diferença entre os sexos. A anomalia de número foi a mais encontrada (6,5%), com a região ântero-superior concentrando a maioria dos casos (46%). As complicações associadas mais comuns foram impactação (41%), perda de espaço (36%), giroversão (18%) e desvio do trajeto eruptivo (5%). A maior porcentagem dos casos foi tratada cirurgicamente com posterior tratamento ortodôntico (48,7%). Enfatiza-se a importância do uso da radiografia no diagnóstico precoce dessas anomalias em crianças.