ABSTRACT
Qualification for nursing professionals is important for they deal with lives that need qualified care. This study aims at analysing health professionals opinions about nursing attendants. It was accomplished between March and July, 1997. Nurses, physicians, nursing aids and technicians at public and philanthropic hospitals in Fortaleza--CE were interviewed. The outcomes show that nursing attendants, most times, perform the same procedures as the nursing aids and may interfere with the provided service quality and cause iatrogenics; others consider them as important at institutions for their practice; some others express themselves completely against the non-qualified professionalization process; anothers express themselves for this process, but disagree on how it is accomplished for they do not perceive any change in their professional profile after being qualified. We do understand that this question is deserving of immediate attitudes for it is related to nursing principal subject: Caring.
Subject(s)
Attitude of Health Personnel , Job Description , Nursing Assistants/education , Nursing Assistants/organization & administration , Personnel, Hospital/psychology , Brazil , Certification , Clinical Competence/standards , Hospitals, Private , Hospitals, Public , Humans , Quality of Health Care , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
The title of this effort has reminded us of the Inconfidência Mineira, that had José Joaquim da Silva Xavier, the Tiradentes as its leader. It was a movement that longed for freedom, like nursing that, along the years, has been building its history and has been walking in search of its autonomy. This study has aims at investigating the ways nursing has gone through, while a science, it searches for its autonomy and mediates about nurse's performance while an autonomous and creative professional. This study had the historical materialism as support. It was accomplished from May to August, 1997 with nurses from Ceará that were involved with the profession historical process. The results originated a central category, professional practice, and the other three ones: autonomy, creativity and disposition to face challenges, that favour a better comprehension about the paths nursing tracked, besides permitting us to understand that the nurse can be autonomous and free.
