The present study it has for objective to understand the experience of domiciliary assistance given by mother of child with chronic illness and dependent of complex cares. The research had as guide axle the qualitative boarding. For the analysis and interpretation of the data, was opted the methodological approach of the Collective Subject Speech (DSC). The data had been collected in the period between January and March of 2005, by half-structuralized interview with resident mothers of three cities of the State of Paraná. Six mainly mothers that takes care of their dependent children had been informing and that had passed for the experience of hospitalization in the last six months. Of the reality of these mothers, all kinds of difficulties was revealed and the ways of confrontation found by them for deal with the daily of the assistance in their homes, what had evidenced the importance of the educative-assistance role of the professional nurse for the effectuation of this process.
Chronic Disease; Nursing; Child Care
