Percepção dos usuários relacionado ao trabalho do enfermeiro na atenção primária em saúde: Revisão integrativa.

Abstract

Introduction: Primary Health Care requires a multiprofessional team, in order to provide integral and continuous care, inserted in this team is the Nurse, which has the role of developing the specific activities assigned to them within this level of care. Objective: Following this thought the objective of this study is to analyze, from the national scientific production, the users' perception regarding the work of the Nurse in the Family Health Strategy. Methodology: This is an integrative review, which is considered a research method that allows the search, critical analysis and synthesis of a certain subject. The strategy of identification and selection of the studies was the search of indexed publications in the Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences database (LILACS), Database of Nursing (BDENF), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO). As inclusion criteria, the articles published in national journals were delimited in the period from 2007 to 2016; Available in full; That have as subjects of the study the population; With Portuguese language. The sample consisted initially of 14 articles, which were inserted after inclusion and exclusion criteria, a total of 5 articles were used. Results and discussion: The studies point out the perception of the PA users regarding the work of the nurse, based on this, it is observed that the users do not know how to distinguish the professional nurse from other professionals, make comparison with any professional that uses a lab coat, and identifies the activities developed by the Nurse Such as those developed by the nursing technician. The opinions of the users about the nursing care is simply directed to the way in which they are attended by these professionals. The view of the elderly regarding the assistance provided by the nursing team is that the elderly affirm that they are well cared for in; so they understand that this professional has the function of only checking the blood pressure or that it replaces the doctor when he can not perform the visit. Other users report that the Nurse listens to you and guides you if necessary. The users know how to describe only activities that are developed in specific assistance. Final considerations: Therefore, it was identified the distorted knowledge that the users of this level of attention have in relation to the work of the nurse in this environment, the population can not distinguish the work that is performed by these professionals in an integral way. In the face of these, it is pointed out the need of the construction of more research on this subject by the fact of obtaining a minimum amount of publication.