Acompanhantes de idosos hospitalizados : um novo desafio para a enfermagem

AUTOR(ES)

Silvana Barbosa Pena

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

In the last years, the nursing staff, in the hospital environment, has lived a new reality: the increasing number of elderly persons interned in the hospitais. By its own characteristics, this population needs not only nursing care but also the presence of a caregiver, as stated by the law number 280, dated April 07, 1999 from Health Ministery. From this reality that the nursing staff is facing and the challenge to its members, it had as objectives: to verify and analyse the participation of the caregiver to the interned elderly person related to personal resources and the activities that can be done, and the expectation of the nursing staff according to the participation of the caregiver looking afier the interned elderly person. Besides these objectives, it intended to identify and analyse the factors that assist and/or make difficulty the participation of the caregiver, noticed by 30 caregivers and 30 nursing professionals, through interviews, of a high complexity hospital from São Paulo countryside. According to the result analysis, the subjects recognize that the presence of the caregiver during this period gives emotional support and favors the recovery. The nursing staff outlined the necessity of the partnership in the caring and orientation process to the continuity of this work at home. Related to the caregiver participation, the nursing staff expects helping to the care, supporting and following to the laws and orientations. The activities to be done by the caregivers according to the subjects are: emotional support, feeding and hygiene. The interest of the caregiver in participating in the process, the personal inter-relation and the previous knowledge make their participation easier. The limitations of the caregiver and his inter-relation to the nursing staff are factors that make this participation difficulty. The biggest emphasis related to the family participation in this care was the inter-relation between the caregivers and the nursing staff demonstrating the importance of the communication in the social interactions.

ASSUNTO(S)

gerontologia cuidados com os doentes idosos - assistencia hospitalar

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