The nurse's and nurse's aides role in caring the patient in a communicable disease isolation unit

Abstract

The instrumental and expressive activities performed by nurses and nurse's aides in the caring given to patients carrier of communicable diseases and that were hospitalized in an isolation unit of a general hospital were surveyed. The authors concluded that nursing team performed more instrumental activities than expressive o :es the nursing attendant was one who did the higher number of the first activities, followed by the nursing auxiliary and the nurse.