Identification of the health care given by the nursing team to elderly residents of filantropic institutions of long permanence in the city of São Paulo / Identificação dos cuidados à saúde prestados, pela equipe de enfermagem, aos idosos residentes em uma instituição de longa permanência filantrópica do município de São Paulo

AUTOR(ES)

Mirela Bertoli Passador

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

At the present time there is no information about how many people live in long term care permanence institutions are in Brazil, nor how they live in these institutions. Brazilian government considers theses institutions as intruments of social attention, not of health responsibility and, thus, there is no obligation of maintaining health professionals in these facilities. However, through professional service, during visits to, aproximately, four hundred long permanence institutions for senior citizens, there was always a licensed professional nurse assisting the elderly residents. Objectives- - Identify the meaning of the term health care for the licensed nurses who work at an elderly long term care institution and what health cares are given by them at the institution Method Qualitative research, with exploratory mather. The collection of data was presented by focal groups, in which the themes for discussion were based on three questions about the activities developed and the definition of health care. A structured questionaire was also used as a data collection instrument, containing eight questions related to population identification. The population was constituted by three Lincese Professional Nurses who work at a long permanence institution for senior citizens. The data were analyzed qualitatively using the content analysis Results The subjects have the concept that health care, such as they describe the health care offered, as the completion of technical procedures directed to the satisfaction of the basic daily life activities. A small number of professional cited activities as emotional support and leisure as health care. Conclusion The nurse aid appraises cares of health from its experience of formation and work, centered in the accomplishment of procedures technician. Psicossociais cares are related by the few professionals, mainly oldest and with more time of work in the institution.

ASSUNTO(S)

envelhecimento health of the elder saúde do idoso health care cuidados à saúde aging

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