(IL)LEGAL NURSING PRACTICE: THE INFORMAL CAREGIVER’S REALITY

Authors

  • Maria Ribeiro Lacerda
  • Ramone Aparecida Przenyczka

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v13i3.12965

Keywords:

Enfermagem, Cuidados domiciliares de saúde, Exercício profissional=pt, Nursing, Home Health Care, Professional Practice=en, Enfermería, Atención domiciliaria de salud, Práctica profesional=es

Abstract

Home care has generated an informal job market, taking up lay people who sometimes deliver inefficient lowquality

care. It is a descriptive-exploratory research study with a qualitative approach carried out with 22 lay caregivers.

The objectives were: to identify home care delivered by informal caregivers; to confront such care with nursing profession

and discuss it in the light of ethical-legal issues. Research results evidenced that lay caregivers perform home nursing

actions such as hygiene care, drug administration, skin care, dressing exchange, invasive procedures and feeding tube

care.

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Published

2008-12-09

How to Cite

Lacerda, M. R., & Przenyczka, R. A. (2008). (IL)LEGAL NURSING PRACTICE: THE INFORMAL CAREGIVER’S REALITY. Cogitare Enfermagem, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.5380/ce.v13i3.12965

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2008)

Section

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

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