Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Scatena Villa, Tereza Cristina
• Araujo Assis, Marluce Maria
• Mishima, Silvana Martins
• Bistafa Pereira, Maria Jose
• Puntel de Almeida, Maria Cecilia
• Palha, Pedro Fredemir
• Pinto, lone Carvalho

Titel

Nursing and the Health System in Brazil

Ist Teil von

• Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1999-12, Vol.31 (4), p.399-401

Ort / Verlag

Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The purpose of this article is to describe nursing in the Brazilian health system and to analyze the characteristics of nursing personnel in Brazil. This description includes types of health institutions, services rendered, and the distribution of nursing personnel by professional categories in 1956, 1982, and 1995. Discussion of the challenges facing Brazilian nurses is presented using data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Federal Nursing Board (COFEn), Regional Nursing Board (COREn), and the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn). An increase in the number of outpatient units and in diagnostic and therapeutic examinations has led to an increased the demand for nurses. Public health nurses participate in planning, management, sanitary education, health promotion, and supervision of nursing care provided by nursing technicians, assistants, and other helpers.