MEIRELES, Kylvia Kayrone de Albuquerque.
Abstract:
The varieties in the profile of competencies of nursing professionals required, among others
that work in health organizations, aims to meet the health needs, influencing so that they seek
to act, mobilize, demand knowledge to solve practical situations, constantly to absorb and
promote response to the demands and needs of each area of activity that may occur. This
study aimed to identify the professional skills of the nurse in the context of Basic Care
presented in the scientific literature. This is an integrative review of the literature with the use
of descriptors "Professional Competence" and "Nursing". 10 Articles of databases Scielo and
Lilacs were rescued. It was possible to build four categories about the nurse's skills in the
following presented primary care: Strategies for the development of competencies; The
professional nurse and the implemented competencies in the Basic Care, The epidemiology as
a tool for operationalization of nursing competencies in the Basic Care and nurse's role in the
competence of health education. There is a need to improve the training of the nurse in the
scope of its competencies, approaching education, care, assistance, management and policy
issues, to a more critical and reflective competence.
