Abstract
This study has the objective of identifying nurses' perspectives regarding health education and investigating how it is conceived, planned, executed and evaluated in the Family Health Strategy. This is a descriptive-exploratory study, utilizing a qualitative approach. Data were collected from 20 nurses within the 10th Regional Health Department of Paraná, through semi-structured interviews which took place in April of 2010, and then subjected to content analysis. Results demonstrate that while developing health education, nurses face many difficulties, which they mainly attributed to the absence of systematization and educational pedagogy regarding their academic education. In conclusion, given these obstacles, nurses require motivation and seek knowledge about planning, exercising and evaluating educational actions strategies, in addition to developing them with a view to improving life conditions and promoting health within the Family Health Strategy.
Highlights
Primary Health Care (PHC) was proposed to prevent illnesses and promote health to the population of all ages and life stages; it is permeated by curative and biologist care values that are mainly focused on illness
Changes in health care models have emerged in Brazil
The state of Paraná has 399 municipalities, which are divided into 22 Regional Health Departments (RHDs)
Summary
Primary Health Care (PHC) was proposed to prevent illnesses and promote health to the population of all ages and life stages; it is permeated by curative and biologist care values that are mainly focused on illness. Based on the importance of creating work plans for the development of educational actions, we observed that only one of the twenty nurses in this study makes use of written plans: in the team meeting we discuss actions, create a rough draft and add the essential, founded information.
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