Permanent education in primary health care: perception of local health managers

• Published in: Revista gaúcha de enfermagem Vol. 38; no. 1; p. e58779
• Main Authors: Silva, Luiz Anildo Anacleto da, Soder, Rafael Marcelo, Petry, Letícia, Oliveira, Isabel Cristine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Brazil 04-05-2017
• Subjects: Brazil; Education, Nursing, Continuing - methods; Education, Nursing, Continuing - organization & administration; Focus Groups; Hospitals, Teaching - organization & administration; Humans; Inservice Training - organization & administration; Models, Theoretical; National Health Programs - organization & administration; Nurse Administrators - psychology; Nursing Education Research; Nursing Staff, Hospital - education; Nursing Theory; Pan American Health Organization; Primary Care Nursing; Qualitative Research; Brazil
• ISSN: 0102-6933
• DOI: 10.1590/1983-1447.2017.01.58779

To know the health education strategies advocated and developed for workers of primary care, in the view of managers.
The study is characterized as a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research. A semistructured interview was used to collect data. The sample population was chosen intentionally, with an audience of 26 municipal health managers ascribed to a regional health coordination office, located in the north/northwest of the Rio Grande do Sul State.
The thematic analysis allowed the construction of two empirical categories: educational strategies, compartmentalized, discontinuous and with technicist bases; and the insipience/absence of educational proposals.
The results show a reality that needs to be transformed by all people involved in health work process: teachers and students, users, members of health councils, workers and managers. Realistically, there is a quest for change in services, to qualify the comprehensiveness of health care.