A utilização de terapias externas pela enfermagem na atenção primária em saúde: uma proposta de intervenção segundo os pressupostos da Medicina Antroposófica

Abstract

In 2006, the Ministry of Health promulgated the National Policy on Integrative and Complementary Practices (PNPIC) being implemented by the Unified Health System (SUS) at various levels of management (BRAZIL, 2006a). This proposal includes a change in paradigm and seeks to expand the way human beings are treated. It is expected professionals skills that promote quality of life and well being, not only physical but mental, spiritual and psychic. Thus, the present study attempts to describe the experience of training nursing staff to perform applications of external therapies, practices of the anthroposophic medicine in primary health care. This is a research intervention that was developed in a basic health unit in the city of Belo Horizonte where anthroposophic medicine is established as a means of serving the population for over ten years. Participants were two nurses and four nursing assistants of the family health care program. The training aimed to raise nursing staff awareness by providing theoretical and practical background for working with these therapies on the most prevalent problems faced in Primary Health Care program. The study was conducted in two stages: the first included the presentation of external therapies and discussion of its viability in daily service and the second consisted of interviews recorded after the training period. The collected data were analyzed using the content emerging from the workshops as reference to evaluate it. The intervention was well accepted by professionals who experienced the importance of a welcoming environment and the effects of treatments applied. It resulted in a greater understanding the adoption of external therapies in the context of the program Primary Health Care.