Permanent education in relation to Family Health Strategy: a descriptive-exploratory study

Online braz. j. nurs. (Online); 12 (suplementar), 2013
Publication year: 2013

Study of Permanent Education (PE) in relation to Family Health Strategy (FHS).

Issue:

the existence of conflict between professionals and authors about the concepts of health education processes and the impact of these conflicts on the implementation of PE.

Aims:

to identify the concept of PE as understood by the multiprofessional FHS team; to experiment with a technology with the group in order to enlarge the concept of PE; to develop a PE experience within FHS.

Method:

study, descriptive, exploratory, with qualitative approach.

Results:

the study produced three categories: Permanent Education in the daily practice of health services: concept understood by professionals: the Health Ministry policy.

Discussion:

the concept of PE became clearer to the majority of the professionals who participated in the intervention.

Conclusion:

the experiment was significant and gave the possibility for the team to consider and rethink the unit working process...