Family Health Strategy: nursing care management

Abstract

This study aimed to understand the knowledge of nurses working in Family Health Strategy about the concept, difficulties and strategies used to develop care management. This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, carried out in Pelotas/RS/Brazil, involving 20 nurses. Data collection occurred with semi-structured interviews, analyzed based on the Thematic Analysis. Nurses understand care management as the articulation between management and care. As for the difficulties, there is a lack of physical structure and material, resistance to dealing with co-workers, lack of autonomy and the position of district manager assigned to the person with no knowledge in the health area. The suggested strategies were approaching the municipal management with the health service, permanent education investments and increase in the number of human resources. Nurses understand that care and management are interconnected to ensure care for the population in their territories.