| dc.description.abstract | The study is part of a larger research, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SUS IN
MUNICIPALITIES IN THE INTERIOR OF RS: INVENTORY OF EXPERIENCES IN
HEALTH PROMOTION AND PRIMARY CARE, registered in the UFSM Projects Portal
under number 055865. It is an effort of three institutions: UFSM, Unijuí and UFRGS.
This report highlights the performance of male and female nurses in the community
health project in Braga and the training and performance of Community Health Agents.
The general objective was to know aspects of the performance of nurses, nurses and
Community Agents in the experience of Community Health in Braga, RS, between the
years 1983 and 1988. The specific objectives were: to identify aspects of the training
of nurses who worked in the project of Community Health in Braga between 1983 and
1988, to describe the performance of nurses in management and care within the scope
of the Community Health Project in Braga between 1983 and 1988 and to understand
the context of the work of Community Health Agents in Health that participated in the
Braga Community Health project between 1983 and 1988. It is a qualitative research,
based on a case study and fourth generation evaluation. Open interviews, focus
groups and document analysis were carried out. The study of the research material
resulted in two categories: training and performance of nurses and training and
performance of Community Health Agents (ACS). During their training, the nurses
participated in the student movement and made connections with community health
projects. FIDENE - Foundation for Integration, Development and Education of the
Northwest of the State of RS, current sponsor of Unijuí (Regional University of the
Northwest of RS) played an important role in making this experience viable: it created
a less traditional course and articulated human and financial resources. The
importance of the experience of Murialdo and the cooperative Unochapecó for the
training of nurses is highlighted. In the experience on the agenda, they participated in
the design of the project, worked with communities and in hospital care, in addition to
carrying out training for Community Health Agents (ACS). The agents had an important
bond with their communities, by whom they were elected. They were volunteers and
performed procedures (bandages, injections) and worked with teas, ointments and
procedures that constituted the scope of the training process. They were responsible
for the connection between the community, the service at the posts and the hospital.
The support for the ACS stands out in the work of the nurses. The inventory of training
and practices, at this moment, still has gaps in knowledge, but the research contributes
to the history of nursing practices and the participation of nurses in the experiences
that preceded the SUS in the region and is a contribution to contemporary proposals
for insertion of nurses with so-called advanced practices. Regarding the ACS, the
institutionalization of the Family Health Program (PSF) and later the ESF (Family
Health Strategy) did not have the capacity to dialogue with what the territory had
accumulated, disregarded the experience and silenced its protagonists. | |
