title: [Leprosy assessment: experience report of nursing students].
abstract: Brazil is the second in the world in new cases of Leprosy. The eradication continues to be a defiant goal. It has sought describe the morphologic profile of lesion formations and analyze the procedures in the care of wounds from a group of people with sequelae of Hansen asylum in an institution non-governmental. The experience of teaching-learning was longitudinal, based on Scientific Methodology of Nursing Assistance, involving people with swellings and health repercussions of Hansen's disease, residents in an institution of Goiás State. All the residents presented disabling swellings and health repercussions associated to the Leprosy: visual impediment, swelling of the eyebrows; fall of the nasal pyramid, total reabsorption of fingers and toes, amputation of both legs, ulna grip, perforating plantar disease. Abrasive soaps and toxic antiseptic were applied directly on the lesion, causing damages to the scarring.
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário de Anápolis, Anápolis, GO.
authors.forename: Sandra Valéria Martins
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.forename: Maria Márcia
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Bachion
authors.forename: Aliny Gracielly Crispim de
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Souza
authors.forename: Sâmia Maria Skaff
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Vieira
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons; D006801:Humans; D007918:Leprosy / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D012648:Self Care / Q000379:methods*