Nurses Competencies in the Implementation of Programs in the Family Health Strategy: Integrative Review

Abstract

Introduction: The Family Health Strategy (ESF) was a significant change for Brazilian health policy, as it aims to reduce pressure in public hospitals through constant care with the patient who should go first in primary care, therefore, primary care began to serve as a gateway to the SUS practicing primary care activities and health promotion constantly. Objective: To identify the main educational actions of nurses in the implementation of the Family Health Strategy Program. Methods: This is an Integrative Review, conducted from August to November 2019, the study included publications of scientific articles, selected and published in the period from 2014 to 2018, available electronically in full text, in the languages Portuguese, English and Spanish in the said Databases Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS), Scientific Electronic Library (SciELO), BDENF (Nursing Database), PUBMED (International Literature on Health Sciences). For the development of this review, the following steps were taken: establishment of the guiding question; selection of articles and inclusion criteria; extraction of the articles included in the review; evaluation of the included studies; interpretations of the results, and presentation of the integrative review. The critical reading of the studies that composed the sample was performed and, with the help of a form made by the researchers themselves, it was possible to extract the relevant information for the study, being validated by the researchers. Result: A total of 17 articles were part of this study. In the SciELO database, 06 articles were identified in LILACS identified 05 articles, in BDENF 5 articles were identified and in the PUBMED database 01 article was selected. The number of articles eligible for the survey was 07 articles. Conclusion: Nursing within the fhs context is extremely important, they work with a focus on preventing the implementation of health education actions and home visits, are also responsible for working a link between health professionals and users of the Family Health Strategy, being an important link to ensure such approximation.