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Investigación y Educación en Enfermería
Print version ISSN 0120-5307On-line version ISSN 2216-0280
Abstract
LOPERA BETANCUR, Martha Adiela. In the event of an emergency at home: an automatic reaction. Invest. educ. enferm [online]. 2009, vol.27, n.1, pp.54-59. ISSN 0120-5307.
Objetive: Understanding the meaning of actions done by patients family members at home when an emergency situation happened and were waiting for medical attention. Methodology: the particularistic ethnographic approach was used. The information was gathered from interviews and observations made to people that received emergency attention at home, in the city of Medellín-Colombia between January 2005 and December 2006. Results: In emergency situation people delivery tasks automatically among who are next to the patient, these tasks are done to recover health, to give company to avoid patient suffering and to organice physical space and prepare patient to receive medical attention. Conclusion: it is essencial to provide education to community for peoples automatic reactions in case of emergency at home to develop safe and calmed actions.
Keywords : health care service at home; emergency nursing; home nursing; pre-hospital care.