Competência profissional do enfermeiro no âmbito da atenção básica: revisão integrativa da literatura.

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.