Indigenous nurses: participation of nursing technicians and auxiliary in indigenous health care services

Texto & Contexto - Enfermagem

Eliana Elisabeth Diehl¹  Helga Bruxel Carvalho Follmann¹ 

关键词: Nurses' aides;    Health services;    indigenous;    Indians;    South American;    Auxiliares de enfermería;    Servicios de salud del indígena;    Indios sudamericanos;    Auxiliares de enfermagem;    Serviços de saúde do indígena;    Índios sul-americanos;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0104-07072014000300013

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The aim of this study was to analyze the participation of Indigenous nursing technicians and aides in Indigenous health care services offered in the Xapecó Reserve, Santa Catarina, Brazil, focusing on the training and activities executed. Data collection (participant observation and interviews) and analysis were based on the ethnographic method. Sixteen key informants were interviewed, including nursing technicians and aides, training instructors, staff nurses and health service users. The training courses contained little or no emphasis on local knowledge and health practices. Other than the role of facilitator and mediator between the health team and community, the activities performed by the Indigenous nursing technicians and aides differed little from those of non-Indigenous people in the same categories. In this context, both the training of these workers and the activities executed by them reinforce the clinical curative model, which hinders articulation with local knowledge and Indigenous health practices, a principle of the National Policy of Health Care for Indigenous People.

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