Open AccessCare management actions in the Family Health Strategy
Author(s) -
Marcelo Costa Fernandes,
Lucilane Maria Sales da Silva,
Maria Rocineide Ferreira da Silva,
Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
rev rene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-6783
pISSN - 1517-3852
DOI - 10.15253/2175-6783.2015000500007
Subject(s) - nursing , action (physics) , health care , work (physics) , qualitative research , process (computing) , family health , data collection , subject (documents) , descriptive research , action research , medicine , psychology , sociology , political science , computer science , pedagogy , mechanical engineering , social science , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , law , engineering , operating system
Objective: to identify, from nurses’ speeches, the actions that enable care management in the Family Health Strategy.Methods: descriptive study with a qualitative approach conducted with 32 nurses of primary care. It was used a semistructuredinterview as the data collection technique. The methodological process of the collective subject discourse wasused to organize the data Results: from the nurses’ speeches one identified the categories: complementary relationshipbetween care and management; meeting with community health agents, a care management strategy in nurses’ work;health education activities such as a care management action and a health information system as an essential tool forcare Conclusion: it was possible to observe that nurses understood the importance of coordination and complementaritybetween the activities of the working process of care and management.