Editorial

Abstract

With a glance of eyes in the summaries of the various volumes of our journal, and even in much of the specialized nursing publications in Brazil, we see the extent of the problems and issues that mobilize nurses in conducting research. Population aging, the persistence of many chronic diseases that had no satisfactory solution, the increasing sensitivity of our professionals for their poor working conditions, for the suffering they experience and witness users and families to experience when the serious illness, hospitalization or death of their neighbors are factors that evidently mobilized the authors of this volume in conducting their research.