Strategies used by Nurses regarding the quick reagent test for syphilis in pregnant women

• Autor(a) principal: Muller, Érico Acosta
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Hoffmann, Izabel Cristina, Fettermann, Fernanda Almeida, Flores, Gisela Cataldi, Donaduzzi, Daiany Saldanha da Silveira, Anversa, Elenir Terezinha Rizzetti
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/6055
• topic: Sífilis Congênita; Cuidado Pré-natal; Enfermagem; Atenção Primária à Saúde; Congenital syphilis; Prenatal care; Nursing; Primary health care.; Sífilis congénita; Cuidado prenatal; Enfermería; Atención primaria de salud

Objective: to know the strategies used by nurses in face of the rapid reagent test for syphilis in pregnant women. Methodology: qualitative study, with eight nurses from health units in a city in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, who responded to a semi-structured interview that contemplated questions about care for pregnant women based on a rapid test result that is reactive to the syphilis. Content analysis was used. Results: three categories were constructed: Permanent health education as a care strategy in primary health care; Health education as a promoter of the pregnant woman's self-care and autonomy; Strategies for the improvement and access to procedures / actions by health teams, weaknesses are perceived by not following protocols. Conclusions: nurses are prepared to carry out rapid tests, however, in view of the reactive test, the decision making of actions is heterogeneous.