A importância da língua brasileira de sinais para enfermagem como dispositivo de cuidado integral na atenção primária à saúde.

Abstract

The inclusion of deaf people in health facilities is essential for the promotion and health protection. However, the lack of communication often prevents it, thus making it difficult comprehensive care. Dialogue is the main means of nurse-patient interaction, and in most of the time one of the family members is the one who communicates with the nurse, and in this way deaf people are deprived of talking about their pain, their problems, their needs, their daily lives. The Brazilian Sign Language is the second official language of Brazil, being used for the communication between deaf people, family and friends. A language still little studied by healthcare students. The aim of this study is to describe, through a experience report, the importance of Sign Language for the comprehensive care of nursing in the Family Health Strategy. This is a qualitative research, based on an experience report that enables better understanding of the researcher according to the course of the studied phenomena, the research covers the period between 2001 and 2017, to analyze the data we used the Bardin's thematic contents, divided into three categories: Category I: Difficulties that Deaf people face care in primary care, highlighting language barriers experienced by deaf users; Category II: Importance of Sign Language in reception of the deaf person in the PHC, where the author highlights the importance of the nurse with knowledge in Sign Language to provide comprehensive care; Category III: The importance and challenges of comprehensive care in Primary Health Care, the linguistic barrier is the greatest difficulty faced by deaf users, there are few people who are interested in learning Sign Language, there are few universities that offer this discipline and arouse the interest of students.