Atuação de enfermeiros da atenção básica frente à estratégia de atenção integrada às doenças prevalentes na infância - AIDPI.

Abstract

The child care is a priority since it is this phase of life that the nervous system is under heavy development, and they are more susceptible to diseases and health disorders. The most frequent diseases are of infectious origin, such as pneumonia, diarrhea, intestinal parasites, meningitis, tuberculosis, malaria, measles and also nutritional disorders. To reduce infant mortality was implemented strategy called Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, based prevention and promotion, immunization, growth monitoring and development, aiming to improve the quality of care provided to children. Through this context, this study aims to investigate the role of primary care nurses across the strategy for Integrated Management of Childhood Illness - IMCI. It is a field research exploratory descriptive qualitative approach, performed in the Family Health Units in the urban area of the city of Cajazeiras - PB, the sample consisted of 10 nurses. Data were collected through a questionnaire, objective data were analyzed using simple descriptive statistics, while subjective data were treated by the technique of content analysis proposed by Bardin. The results reveal that 60% of respondents do not develop the IMCI strategy, the vast majority knows, however, cannot distinguish it from childcare. There are major difficulties for the implementation of IMCI, including the lack of knowledge on the subject, since 80% of respondents reported not having been able to serve in this strategy. It was found that there is no standardization in the care of children according to what is recommended by IMCI. Concludes that the situation in the city studied this strategy is less than expected, requiring adjustments for better effectiveness. It is salutary to be conducted professional training on this subject, since this action is essential to the correct implementation of this strategy, which aims besides the reduction of infant morbidity, contributing to the quality of care for children and the consequent improvement in health indicators child.