O enfermeiro como educador no programa Saúde da Família: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

Education in healthness is a tool among the strategies of health promotion, being recognized as an essential way on the Brazilian program, called Estratégia Saúde da Família (Family Health Strategy). However, nurses face up difficulties to implement these tools on routine`s assistance. The main objective of this paper is to identify how nurses apply their techniques on the primary health care, associated with the knowledge on health education in order to promote healthness. This paper is an integrative study based on the national scientific production and the more developed this study, the more it was found that nurses remain their educative actions on the traditional model. It is concluded that such professionals ought to recognize health promotion as a strategy to transform social reality and its own heatlcare practices into a common practice.