Estaleiros Navais de Peniche (Portugal)

El presente artículo tiene como finalidad estudiar el valor del testimonio, en especial de su credibilidad, confrontándolo con los avances en el sistema nervioso. Con este fin se hará un breve repaso sobre los conceptos de Neurociencia y Neurolaw, con el fin de dar el contexto científico necesario, para posteriormente analizar algunos elementos que deben tomarse en cuenta al momento de valorar un testimonio.

This research sought to describe the care provided by the nursing staff of the Western Department of the Basic Emergency Service for end-of-life patients. This was a retrospective, quantitative, exploratory and descriptive (level I) study, which sought to research the nursing records of 83 patients from admission to death. Patients who met the following inclusion criteria were considered eligible: adults; had an oncological or nononcological, advanced and irreversible chronic disease; and died in the Basic Emergency Service in the period from January 2011 to December 2012. An instrument was created for data collection, the content, relevance and adequacy of which was validated by a panel of experts in the area of palliative care. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee. The main results indicate that the majority of patients died in the Observation Room in a period between the first two and twenty-four hours. Nursing interventions favoured technical-instrumental care related to medical prescriptions and service routines such as venous punctures, catheterisations, taking blood samples for analysis, aspiration of secretions, intravenous administration of fluids and drugs for symptomatic control, and monitoring of vital parameters and the state of consciousness. With the proximity of death, the nurses favoured the registration of cardiorespiratory arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation manoeuvres and aspiration of secretions. In the recognition of predictive factors of imminent death, the nurses favoured the patient's entry into a comatose state and aggravation of asthenia. In most patients, the entry into agony phase was not diagnosed.

Os pesquisadores afirmam que o livro didático exerce grande influência no exercício da docência de inúmeros profissionais que atuam na Educação Básica. O presente artigo analisa a construção processual do livro didático e seus desdobramentos no ensino de história e, para tanto, problematiza a atuação dos profissionais que elaboram o livro didático – não só o autor do texto – e as práticas por eles desenvolvidas, destacando os limites e possibilidades na fabricação do livro. Também analisa algumas relações entre a formação docente e os usos do livro didático em sala de aula, pois, para transformar esse instrumento em objeto de pesquisa no cotidiano escolar, como defendem muitos pesquisadores, se faz necessário experimentar essa possibilidade durante a formação docente dos professores.