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Abstract Objective: To analyze the historical events of the nursing profession presented by the Brazilian print media and that were configured as important in the (re/des) construction of the professional identity, from 1980 to 1986. Method: Qualitative research with a documental historical nature guided by historical investigation process, using 80 articles published in newspapers of great national circulation. Results: They portrayed the nursing struggles and representative entities to improve working conditions, the highlights for intercurrences in the nursing area, as well as the media portrayal of the stereotype of nursing at the time. Conclusion: The stereotypes traced by print media result in a double impact on nursing and its professional identity. On the one hand, it adds visibility to the struggles and gains of the category, and on the other, it generates devaluation by portraits of intercurrences in the exercise of the profession without pertinent contextualization and explanation of the facts that approached and resulted in such an event.

Objective: the objective is to identify situations of stress experienced by the members of the nursing staff of Intensive Care Unit to care for a potential organ donor. Method: Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, with fourteen members of the nursing staff who work with the potential organ donor. The data were collected through semistructured interviews and analyzed on the basis of the analysis of thematic content. Results: Health professionals feel threatened to identify with the situation of the person in brain death, by the fear of the death itself, with the doubt in relation to brain death and also because of the feeling of failure as a professional. Conclusion: The nursing staff in front of the potential organ donor comes under stressful situations, having to overcome the challenges and to mobilize strategies from the situations that are presented.