Abstract
To analyze the practices of nurses working in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in a city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ) and the theoretical foundations that guide them. Qualitative research through semi-structured interviews with twelve nurses working in eleven FHS units between August and December 2014. Data were organized by hermeneutic-dialectical analysis. The nurse is inserted in the municipal FHS as care coordinator and political agent; has practices aimed at welcoming, mobilizing social groups, making technical and monitoring of users through health programs. The practices remain in the confrontation of problems and are guided by technical manuals and coordination of health programs. Studies are needed to recognize the nurse's therapeutic objective at the FHS and to propose theoretical foundations, specific to Nursing or Collective Health that will instrumentalize their daily practice.
Highlights
Studies on the practice of nurses in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) have pointed to the discussion about the role of this professional, in regard to the re-signification of care as the structuring axis of their practice(1), from an active stance towards reality(2) and that guarantees new modeling of care production(3)
The study showed a municipal daily practice focused on coordinating care, welcoming, doing technical and monitoring of users through health programs
The complexity of nurses practices in Primary Health Care (PHC) is described in international studies(4,6) in the discussion about the role of nurses in this field of Health Care, based on the health needs of the population, through the production of a social, participatory and transforming practice of the reality of the population’s life
Summary
Studies on the practice of nurses in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) have pointed to the discussion about the role of this professional, in regard to the re-signification of care as the structuring axis of their practice(1), from an active stance towards reality(2) and that guarantees new modeling of care production(3). The apprehension in redirecting nurses’ practice in Primary Health Care (PHC), as a practice of social transformation in the defense of the health of the population is not specific to Brazilian authors, is evidenced in studies in New Zealand(4), Australia(5) and Canada(6). These point out the need to know how the practices of nurses working in this field of care and their impacts on the production of care are developed
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