Artículos de revistas
Production of nursing care in primary health care services
Fecha
2012Registro en:
REVISTA LATINO-AMERICANA DE ENFERMAGEM, RIBEIRAO PRETO, v. 20, n. 4, pp. 710-717, JUL-AUG, 2012
0104-1169
10.1590/S0104-11692012000400011
Autor
Matumoto, Silvia
Vieira, Katia Cristina dos Santos
Pereira, Maria José Bistafa
Santos, Claudia Benedita dos
Fortuna, Cinira Magali
Mishima, Silvana Martins
Institución
Resumen
This descriptive and quantitative study aimed to characterize the production of nursing care in primary health care services in a region of the city of Ribeirao Preto, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study sample comprised care actions delivered by nurses and registered in the HygiaWeb Information System, from 2006 to 2009. Statistical analysis was performed. Results showed that nursing care delivered by nurses accounted for 9.5 to 14.6% of total professional care provided by professionals. Eventual care actions were the most frequent. The concentration of programmatic care was higher for children, women, pregnant and postpartum women. In conclusion, the predominance of eventual care demonstrated that the health system has been focused on acute conditions. Little of nursing work has been directed at the achievement of comprehensiveness, considering the inexpressive share of longitudinal follow up in total care delivery. The expansion of nursing staff represents potential for care delivery to the population, but further qualification of nursing actions is needed.