Atuação do enfermeiro nos serviços de atenção domiciliar: implicações para o processo de formação DOI: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v13i3.19227

Abstract

This study aims to describe the various types of professional home care service as well as to analyse their insertion and their effect on the nurses' training.It is a descriptive exploratory research with a qualitative approach carried out in different home care services.The coordinators of the home care service programme were interviewed and the cases of patients assisted at home were studied.The results indicated that home care has specific needs and characteristics that ought to be addressed by the formative nursing training:how to approach the family in their life context, how to include the patients in the construction and implementation of home therapeutic projects and the use of new health care methods and resources, such as management of the chronic cases and palliative care.