Programa Saúde da Família: atuação do(a) enfermeiro(a)

Abstract

This paper deals with the theoretícal/conceptual aspects of family health and tries to reveal the context of insertion of nursing from an incursion by the authoress to the historical roots of attention to family health as a pattern of practíce. This comes back to the beginnings until the present practices of attention to health, defined nowadays, as strategy operationalization in the political health actions in the country. It also aims at identifying how the nurses have political actions ín our country. This dissertation also characterize the individuais’ knowledges and how it is realized and defined by their actors. It was made a field research at Distrito de Vida Esperança when 14 nurses, who work in the staffs of Health Family Program, were studíed and analysed. The paper come to the concluston that the nurses concentrate levei of credibility to the PSF's proposals, when they above area. It also analyses the pattern of life and its life cycle. The nurses revealed that heir actions face the demands of the ministerial programs and social goals as to the autonomy of the families and their problems, conflicts and yearnings the field research revealed that the nurses’ work find an obstacle as to the structural difficulties, when their actions be confined to the Health Basic Unity. It also presents the families’ poorness and limited access to the social benefits. The genogram of the family becomes an operational consideration in order to clarity the families, problems and also has the target of guiding more appropriated interventions to each family in particular. The conclusions of this paper point to the old newly developed model practices, whích deflagrate new perspectives for future studies.