[Home healthcare: a critical appraisal on nursing scientific production]

Abstract

The aim was to analyze the nursing scientific production concerning to home health care, from bibliography in electronic addresses of nursing journals, covering the period between 2000 and 2007. Two themes were identified: organization of home care and perceptions of caregivers and their families about the home care. There was the interest of authors in define concepts that reflect the ways of organizing the professional assistance in home and in identify the characteristics of caregivers and their families. In conclusion, the nursing has entered the care at home as the object of their search, but still so low, a fact which reinforces the need for expansion and dissemination of research of the profession.