Concepções de acadêmicos de enfermagem sobre atuação do enfermeiro frente às drogas lícitas.

Abstract

According to the outlook recent years, the consumption and production of drugs have increased significantly, being characterized as a worrying public health problem in Brazil and in the world. Nurses to be inserted in various healthcare environments, introduces the need to have a knowledge of licit drugs, to develop a more skilled and humane care. 's Research aims to identify the concepts of nursing students on the role of nurses within the legal drugs, such as specific objectives the description of socio - demographic profile of these academics, as well as identify the concepts of scholars on legal drugs, analyze the role of the nurse in the consumption of licit drugs from the viewpoint of nursing students and present the strategies Nurses' attention directed to the care towards the consumption of licit drugs cited by academics nursing. Descriptive exploratory study with a qualitative approach undertaken in the field of CFP / UFCG. Participants were 20 undergraduate nursing students supervised the stages I and II. Data collection was conducted through interviews with semi-structured. Data were analyzed using content analysis, taking the interview as data collection instrument, and were transcribed in text and taken to reading to then define the categories and subcategories of the study. 26222513.4.0000.5180: the ethical principles contained in Resolution No. 466/12 of the National Health Council in which deals with research involving human subjects and was approved by the IRB of the School Santa Maria, with CAAE opinion were respected . The results indicated that academic knowledge to conceptualize legal hold regarding their legality drugs and harm the health of the individual, family and community, demonstrated strength in defining psychoactive substances and also presented some limitations in describing the role and strategies developed by nurses in various environments and health care. According to what has been shown, if you believe that the inclusion of the theme of licit drugs in the undergraduate curriculum, will contribute to better care of academics in apprenticeships and more targeted assistance to the effects of these substances on the health of users.