Atuação do enfermeiro no enfrentamento ao sarampo no Brasil.

Abstract

Measles is a viral disease immunopreventable through the vaccination process, with nurses being one of the main responsible in the process of coping with measles, working in the vaccine room, in the active search for the absentee and in health education. In this research, we sought to identify, through the scientific survey, the role of nurses in the actions of control and prevention of Measles in Primary Health Care. To achieve this goal, an integrative review research was carried out, through the databases Literature Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS), International Literature in Health Sciences (MEDLINE) and Nursing Database (BDENF), with the descriptors “Primary Health Care”; "Measles"; “Vaccination” using the Boolean AND operator. The selected articles went through inclusion and exclusion criteria, and at the end the sample consisted of 08 studies. The results pointed out the need to comply with the vaccination schedule, including the process of updating the child's vaccination card, as well as guidance on the importance of such compliance and the vaccination process itself, raising awareness among parents and / or guardians. Since the nurse is included in the Primary Care team, there is a need for continuing education for these professionals, for their updating and training to educate the other professionals under their responsibility, such as nursing technicians and assistants. We conclude that there is a direct correlation between vaccination coverage and the number of measles cases, in which the nurse who is in direct contact with the population has enormous power to modify realities, being an important professional to enable adequate vaccination coverage in coping with the measles.