Analysis Respiratory Care in Five Regions of the Country: Current Status and Future Tendencies

Abstract

This study analyse the respiratory care practice in five regions f the country, by means of a descriptive – exploratory research, aiming to review the formation tendencies, the working conditions, the roles of the practitioners, the professional practice dilemmas and the characterization of the physical therapeutic and respiratory therapeutic functions. The information was obtained through surveys with respiratory therapeutics, physical therapeutics, interview with infirmary and medical professionals, who work in third and fourth complexity degree health institutions in select cities for the study. The collected information includes not only daily routines but also the knowledge and preferences regarding the professional practice and their related aspects of labour conditions and characteristics of the professional exercise. The study allowed to conclude that there is an idealization of the conceptual missing roles to efficiently carry out the respiratory care without and additional formation of graduate level or training courses in this area, weakness of the administrative and investigative functions of domiciliary attentions and initial evaluation of the environment, lack of positioning of the function in front of the interdisciplinary team and precarious labour conditions.