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The 21st Century brought global issues the world has never faced before. Climate challenge and destruction of the environment raise the issues of ecological preservation. Poverty and youth unemployment precipitates the issues of social inclusion. Extreme violence and moral hazard bring up the issue of social inclusion. These challenges are interconnected. It cannot solve all of them by improving one of them. Then how can we solve them? It is only possible when we address the fundamental causes. What are the basic causes of challenge? They are mainly originated by man-made and man-induced behavior and characteristics. Humanity stands at the center of these global challenges. The key solution is changing human beings. How can we change human beings? The only solution is education. Through education, we can transform the human mind and tide over the unprecedented 21st Century. However, the current education system does not provide solutions to global challenges. It mainly pursues the economic growth and development. Schools and universities focus on building competences rather concentrate raising human resources to prepare the future. We need a new educational paradigm not only to train expertise, but also to cultivate the mind sets, value and attitudes to engage in global issues. The paradigm should bring the realization that we exist, not merely as an independent person, but interdependent beings mutually interconnected. It should also address interdependence of economy, environment and society, in order to make the world sustainable. Global Citizenship Education (GCED) has received the spot light as a new education paradigm to the formation and cultivation of global citizen. It considers overall global perspectives to open people’s eye and mind to the realities of the world. Hence. It is not only the issue of academy, but also issue of economy, environment and society. It is the issue of all of…

In integrating computers in higher education, researchers have proposed that positive attitudes toward computers and high computer self-efficacy levels could be important factors in helping students learn computer skills and use computers. It is also expected that LIS Postgraduate students should be knowledgeable and comfortable with electronic resource usage. It is against these backgrounds that this study was conducted. Suvey research design was adopted, the population was Library and Information Science postgraduate students in two selected library schools in Nigeria. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire, two hundred and thirty nine (239) copiesof questionnaire were administered, two hundred and seven (207) were sucessfully retrieved and found to be useable, representing 86.6% response rate. Data analysis was done using descriptive and inferencial statistics. Results showed that in spite of the potentials emerging technologies offers in Library Schools globally, in Nigeria, there is not very evidential that Library Schools are integrating ICTs into their instructions. It was found that among the two library schools studied, there were no operational/functional computer laboratory with internet facilities, access by students were restricted due to limited space as at the time of this study, this go a long way to show that LIS postgraduate students depend solely on their PCs with modem as alternative internet connector or commercial cyber café as the last resort. The above confirmed that there was no computer laboratory with functional internet facilities for postgraduate students as the time of this study. Recommendations for the study include that drastic measures should be taken by LIS educators/administrators to provide computers with functional internet facilities to LIS postgraduate students in their various schools to eliminate any barrier confronting them in order to enhance efficiency and quality of teaching, learning and research services. It was also recommended that other researchers should study…

Introduction: Since the media is one of the main instruments of communication today, having a strong capacity to influence the construction of eating habits, especially in the children’s audience, we find pertinence in the association of these factors associated to the family nucleus. With regard to the family context, it is seen that children become more vulnerable to this technology because they spend a large part of their day surrounded by various instruments that, in most cases, allow negative access when it comes to conceptions food products, which is a consequence of the constant association of food advertisements with low nutritional content. With regard to the family context, it is seen that children become more vulnerable to this technology because they spend a large part of their day surrounded by various instruments that, in most cases, allow negative access when it comes to unhealthy conceptions food products, which is a consequence of the constant association of food advertisements with low nutritional content. Objective: Therefore, this work aims to correlate the influence of the media in the construction of eating habits in children. Methodology: This is a review study of the literature, with papers in Portuguese, researched in the period from 2011 to 2017 referenced in the Google Scholar database, having the following expressions as descriptors: Influence of Media and Eating Habits. Results and Discussion: We noticed that most publications we found claims that the media has a strong relationship in the construction of children’s eating habits since they are more susceptible to influence and manipulation, because they do not have a critical sense formed yet. Another relevant aspect is the interference of food in the family nucleus, which generates resistance to the adhesion of new healthy eating habits. Thus, we consider the importance of discussions involving media power in the…

Introduction: Multiprofessional team is the joining of efforts and interests of professionals who recognize the interdependence with other components in a cooperative work, to achieve synchronized and coordinated activity. Objectives: To establish protocols for patient care through discussion and construction of a plan of care for each patient admitted to the ward of the Oncology Service of the Hospital das Clínicas of Pernambuco (HC-PE); Promote security for the professional performance and integration between them; Stimulate the updating and constant training of the Multiprofessional Team. Methodology: Within 72 hours of hospitalization, we constructed the care guidelines for patients, in addition to preparing them for care after hospital discharge. The components of this team are social worker, doctor, nurse, speech therapist, nutritionist, psychologist, occupational therapist and pharmacist. Meetings are held on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 10:30 am in the ward on the eleventh floor of the HC-PE. The instruments of work are forms where we record the goals of care for the current hospitalization of each patient, planning after the discharge and another where the meetings with relatives and the respective referrals are registered. Communication and dissemination takes place through an email group and drive for document sharing. Every week, each member of staff presents aspects of their area of expertise. Results and Discussion: The formation of the group started on 09/08/17 and in each meeting we divided the time in referrals and discussion of a case with registration of the therapeutic plan. The future perspective will be to present the work of the multidisciplinary group to all employees of the HC-PE Oncology Service and later to every hospital. Conclusion: The performance of this group in the oncology ward has ensured an integral care for the patients and unifying the working language of all the team, besides bringing more safety to…

Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease is characterized by multiple cognitive decline involving memory impairment and progressive loss of functional capacity, where the client needs multidisciplinary care. Objective: to evaluate the actions of caring for the elderly with Alzheimer’s disease from the perspective of the nurse. Methodology: Integrative review, where 7 articles published in the last five years that composed the study sample were identified from the Lilacs, SciELO, PubMed, Medline and Bdenf databases. Results and Discussions: The main nursing diagnoses found by Nanda patients experienced by Alzheimer patients were: chronic confusion, risk of injury, impaired communication, activity intolerance, self – care deficit, impaired social interaction and interrupted family processes. However, in one of the studies on nursing diagnoses, it was possible to identify improvement of the cognition of the patient with (DA) through the application of the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), which is a cognitive evaluation scale that exercises immediate memory, incidental and late. In other studies, poor knowledge was observed, assisting the recognition of learning figures and early identification of depression, aiding in the pattern of impaired sleep, the risk of loneliness and chronic sadness. The nurse, through his theoretical and technical resources, should provide means to facilitate care, among them, establish communication strategies between him and the patient, in order to delay the evolution of the disease. Conclusion: Study showed the importance of implementing the nursing process for this focus, which allows comprehensive care to the Alzheimer’s patient

Introduction: Multidisciplinary intervention with a group of followers of the oncology ward of a school hospital in Recife. During the internment, the anxieties that emerge are broad and complex, permeated by intense feelings like fear, insecurity, anger, revolt and sadness. This symptomatology is natural from the moment of crisis, rupture, (re) adaptation, which exposes the human being in his greatest weaknesses, anxieties and anxieties. Objectives: To provide a space of collective care through the exchange of experience, expression and resignification; to improve the communication between companion and patient, companion and team; provide information and guidance that facilitates the organization of the care routine. Methodology: The meeting took place weekly from the invitation made by the team. The group started with the presentation of the facilitators and then the presentation of the companions who said their name, the patient who was accompanying and had some degree of kinship with the same. This group was open, heterogeneous, educational and therapeutic, depending on the demand brought by the companions during the individual visits during the week. Results: Emotional strengthening of the rights and duties of the companions, and choice of coping strategies more effective. Conclusion: Extended and interdisciplinary care based on the knowledge of the needs of the companions for better patient care.

Introduction: The cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the principal causes of morbidity and mortality in the world, it’s can to be previne with health promotion, through of the protagonist paper of the nurse. Objectives: Analyse like the nurse act in the prevetion of the cardiovascular diseases in adults. Methodology: The present study is a revision of integrative role, whose reviewed articles were captured through database analysis: BDENF, LILACS and SciELO. The descriptors utilized were: Cardiovascular diseases, Health education, Nursing. This analysis were realized on september 25th to 27th, 2017; the criterions of the included were published articles in portuguese and english, in 2011 to 2017, being excluded all that haven’t adequation at thematic of study. By means of the criterions defined were found 120 publisheds, but, only 7 articles met the criterions of the principal objective. Results and Discussions: The modifiable factors propitiate the advent, the maintenance e progression of the CVDs, being an aspect of major influence to the appear of the patology than the non-modifiable, genetic, race, sex and age, that possibility thus the intervention preventive of the nurse, in control the dyslipidemia, systemic arterial hypertension, tabagism, among others, starting at the Health Basic Unit, integrand the actions that proporcions a major quality of life to the patient. Conclusion: According to what was mentioned, is possible to observe the importance of the nurse like health educator, enabling the prevetion of the CVDs, since, this professional can to conscientize the community and through of this change comportaments accentuating the quality of life.

Introduction: Health education in Primary Health Care (PHC) services is characterized by a set of knowledges and guidelines, both aimed at health promotion and disease prevention. The nurse, along with the other professionals that make up the APS, need to have a specific knowledge about the assigned area, since the act of educating will require the educator knowledge of the reality of his student. Objectives: To analyze nurses’ practice in relation to their educational role in promoting health for chronic noncommunicable diseases. Methodology: Integrative review study, in the databases LILACS, SciELO, BDENF. The descriptors used were: Chronic Disease; Health education; Nursing; Role of the Nurse, Health Promotion. The collection took place on September 22 and 24, 2017. The following inclusion criteria were used: articles published between the years 2010 to 2016, in full text and written in Portuguese language, being excluded all those findings that did not contemplate the proposed theme, editorials and revisions. Results and Discussion: We identified 27 publications, but only 10 met the inclusion criteria. In the studies analyzed, the nurse is seen as a key point in the prevention and promotion of health .. Its performance is of total relevance, since it performs its interventions mainly by educational actions, due to its holistic perception. The nurse acts in the health education of the population, providing other actions for them to have adequate conditions for improvement, such as the stimulation of healthy habits and the use of specific and differentiated care, thus contributing to improve quality of life. Conclusion: It was verified that the nurse through his scientific technical knowledge is qualified to act in the health education of the population, possessing satisfactory characteristics to exercise the function of educator.

Introduction/Objective: The present study is part of an educational sciences PhD program and aims to evaluate the educational process that can result from the suffering process experienced by oncological patients. The main purposes of the study are: (1)build up in the oncological patients the capacity to acquire knowledge due to their suffering experience related to the disease; and (2) be able to transfer the obtained knowledge to formal and informal caregivers. Methodology: Cancer patients were selected that met the criteria defined in the research. Questionnaires were given following the method of narratives beyond the questionnaire of Coherence Sense proposed by Antonovsky. Results and Discussion: We found that patients do not always know their ability to manage their difficulties about the disease and its real care needs, a situation which results in a lack of knowledge on the part of formal caregivers, about the experience that patients have of their disease, with order consequences technical and ethical. In this paper, the salutogenic perspective Antonovsky; and the ethics of care in the health context are the theoretical assumptions. Conclusion: We consider that each oncological patient has an educator status, as he/she can teach and is, more over, the one who can teach not only the possible direction of the disease, but the specifics of the illness; these specifics as the possible direction of the disease, are inextricably linked to what Antonovsky appointed as internal sense of coherence, for which evaluation he built the SOC questionnaire. For their turn, the ethics of care, according to Kemp and Rendtorff, defines four ethical principles in the context of health and medical research: autonomy, dignity, integrity and vulnerability. These principles are inseparable and must be understood in a general framework of solidarity and responsibility.

Introduction: The sexually transmitted infections are a worldwide concern. The rates of some infections are increasing in groups of people that were not affected by them in the past, therefore, this increase demonstrates many vulnerabilities in those groups, even though that are a circumstantial number of promotion and prevention of health in the actual health system. Objetive: To describe an action of education in health about sexually transmitted infections (Syphilis and Human Papillomavirus – HPV) to young adults from a public school of the state of Pará. Methodology: This study is a descriptive experience report, developed by a multiprofessional team of Women’s and Children’s Health residents. The education in health action was performed using a pretest with closed questions about syphilis and HPV. These questions were about clinical epidemiological information about the diseases. After this pretest, a lecture was performed for the students about the diseases and the correct methods of preventing those. The students were divided into groups and they were told to make a poster with images about what they have had understood about the lectures, the clinical aspects of the diseases. Results and Discussion: The students had a satisfactory perception of the sexually transmitted diseases, which was demonstrated by the answers of the pretest and the poster they had made. The action showed that students were receptive and aware that even with lectures and campaigns, the risks of infection were still a risk, and so they sought preventive methods that would protect them regularly. Conclusion: Health orientation in schools is a good method to aware young adult’s students about the health-disease process. The action could improve the relationship between the multiprofessional residents and spread substantial information about the sexually transmitted diseases to students from the education in health program.