Os atributos mobilizados pela enfermeira na saúde da família-uma aproximação aos desempenhos na construção da competência gerencial / The attributes mobilized by nursing professionals in the Family Health Program performance in constructing managerial competence

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

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health care services based from primary care. To become effective, health care workers should commit to the program by restructuring the work process, making it feasible to develop health care practices that meet the needs of the population. This should be performed through acts of speaking, listening, bonding, and negotiating. Hence, this exploratorydescriptive case study aims to identify and analyze, through a qualitative approach, the attributes mobilized in labor situations by nursing professionals. Such attributes characterize their performance in terms of managerial competence area in the Family Health Program founded on the theoretical concepts of dialogic competence. Data were collected by observing (participant observation) the work of nursing professionals, involved in the Family Health Program, in four primary health care units of the University of Sao Paulo in the city of Ribeirao Preto SP/Brazil. Observation was carried out for 160 hours, considering a typical workweek. Data were analyzed through the technique of thematic content analysis, and five major themes were identified. The first, Supervision as an instrument to control and educate, points supervision as an activity inherent to daily nursing work management and presents the dimensions of education (considering both educating and training workers) and control (activities and staff). The second, Team work in the Family Health Program, suggests that nursing work is articulated with that of the whole team to promote health care, showing how actions and interaction among workers take place. The third, Social control in the managerial process, indicates social control and participation as instruments that promote citizenship and are parts of the nursing work, related to the Local Health Committee. The fourth, Organizing work to produce health care, shows that work in nursing develops toward: organizing the flow of patients and information at the unit as well as among health care services, controlling infrastructure and human resources, and planning and providing material. The final theme, Work coordination and planning, states that planning is directed to punctual activities (concerning health promotion and continuous education), scales, and health care; and coordination is related to the organization of work to promote health care, with rare initiatives toward a more global planning directed to the territory and evaluation of individual and collective actions, and organizing the health care unit. Findings were analyzed and revealed that there is a group of attributes mobilized by these nurses, which could be indicators of performance in the Family Health Program, centered in the organization of work for individual health care, with rare incursions to a systemized and continuous action involving all the steps of planning, including a permanent process of evaluation of the proposed actions, in a more participative way, including other individuals. Thus, this study presents relevant questions for the analysis of performance needed in managerial competence, but needs to be validated by the group of nurses that work with the Family Health Program in Ribeirao Preto.

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professional competence programa de saúde da família primary health care saúde da família family health program enfermagem em saúde comunitária atenção primária à saúde family health community health nursing competência profissional

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