Continuing health care education: concepts and practices of nurses in basic health units

Authors

  • Priscila Orlandi Barth Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Marines Aires Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões
  • José Luis Guedes dos Santos Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
  • Flávia Regina Souza Ramos Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/ree.v16i3.22020

Keywords:

Nurse's Role, Health Education, Continuing Education, Health Personnel, Primary Health Care

Abstract

Continuing education in health care is a strategy for constructing new health care and nursing practices. This study aimed to identify the concepts and practices of continuing education in health held by primary care nurses in the municipalities of the 19th Regional Health Coordination of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It was a descriptive exploratory study of quantitative approach. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 28 nurses and analyzed using Thematic Analysis. The results displayed that nurses have questions about the meaning and practice involved in continuing health care education, continuing education and health care education. Although continuing health care education is a public policy, it is still carried out in a fragmented and inflexible way. Professionals must have a clear idea this policy’s directionality in order for health care practices to be transformed.

doi: 10.5216/ree.v16i3.22020.

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Author Biographies

Priscila Orlandi Barth, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Enfermeira, Mestre em Enfermagem. Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, nível Doutorado, da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (PEN/UFSC). Florianópolis, SC, Brasil. E-mail: priscilabarth@yahoo.com.br.

Marines Aires, Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões

Enfermeira, Mestre em Enfermagem. Discente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, nível Doutorado, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Professora da Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões. Porto Alegre, RS, E-mail: marines@uri.edu.br.

José Luis Guedes dos Santos, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Enfermeiro, Mestre em Enfermagem. Discente do PEN/UFSC, nível Doutorado. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil. E-mail: joseenfermagem@gmail.com.

Flávia Regina Souza Ramos, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Enfermeira, Doutora em Enfermagem. Professora Associada da UFSC. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil. E-mail: flaviar@ccs.ufsc.br.

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Published

2014-09-30

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2014)

Section

Original Article