Cuidado à saúde da pessoa idosa com tuberculose na perspectiva dos familiares.

Abstract

The nursing has an essential importance in the assistance, health education and human resources training, for being tools used to promote health. In this context, the nursing has been developed in order to search new horizons and perspectives more humanized in taking care of people, in special, the elderly people, a group that the society little recognizes due to his stereotypes. Objective: Describe the dispensed care by the nurses from teams of Family Health Strategies to the sick elderly of tuberculosis from the view of his relatives. Method and materials: Is a descriptive and qualitative research, developed in 10 residences of elderly relatives, sick of Tuberculosis in the municipally of Sousa, Paraiba. The empirical material was collected in months of august to september 2016, trough structured interview with the assistance of a portable recorder and was analyzed trough the Content Analysis technique. All ethical aspects involving research of human beings was obeyed conform to the Resolution nº 466/2012 of National Health Council. The research project was approved by Research Ethics Committee of College Santa Maria, under number of 1.502.733. Results: The relatives understanding the care as a human value of respect, love, zeal, dedication, protection and responsibility. This is not perceived in relation to the nursing care. It is observed fragility in the work process of nursing assistance, in which, disregard practices are strongly influenced by the fault of communication and bond, by the vertical organization of health network attention in the municipally, or same, by the transfer of responsibility among professionals. Conclusion: A new conception of management care, based on the concept of health completeness, need to be incorporated into the nursing work process, so that it can be transform your object work, which is, the care in practices of attention, ruled effectively in the basic attention dimension.