Possibilidades da implementação do Processo de Enfermagem na estratégia da saúde da família no atendimento à pessoa idosa

• Autor(a) principal: Sampaio, Renata de Oliveira Marinho
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11387
• topic: nursing process; elderly; primary healthcare; processo de enfermagem; idoso; atenção básica à saúde; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

Ageing is a current phenomenon and the elderly population is expanding rapidly and intensively, to such an extent that life expectancy has increased considerably. In Brazil, primary healthcare is the gateway to care for the elderly and, in the Family Health Strategy (ESF), it is nurses who are directly responsible for their care. However, in order to deliver a more dedicated level of care the Nursing Process needs to be employed, particularly with regards to appointments with nurses. The purpose of this study was to debate amongst a working group, made up of nurses from the ESF, the possibility of implementing the Nursing Process in care for the elderly. The method of Action Research was applied, with both participants and co-researchers contributing to test this theory. It was observed that for nurses to assist with the care of the elderly, electronic records acted as an aid during the Nursing Process. Primary care nurses are able to see the need for change in their care of the elderly, the ESF has an adequate and comfortable structure in place for care of the elderly and when the nurse gets together with the nursing team it is possible to put the Nursing Process into practise. A number of obstacles were noted: an insufficient number of healthcare teams, care of the elderly is still centred around ailments and doesn t demonstrate geriatric syndromes which could be minimised in an appointment with a nurse, mainly through the use of the Nursing Process; the nurse s lack of knowledge when it comes to applying the Nursing Process when caring for the elderly, the amount of bureaucracy nurses have to fulfil in the ESF and the insufficient number of nurses in the family healthcare teams. Another point to consider is that the elderly still do not receive care directed towards senescence nor help from the nurse, especially in relation to senility, something which results in a shortcoming in care for the elderly. Final considerations: as the main contribution, the study sought discussion about the Nursing Process with nurses from the ESF who were taking part in the trials, who contributed through their working practises as participants and demonstrated how the use of the Nursing Process is possible to exercise a more targeted and qualified level of care for the elderly.