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.
Nursing in communicable diseases; Nurse's aides; Nurses role