Challenges and practicalities for Primary Care nurses to implement the nursing process
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https://doi.org/10.12957/reuerj.2025.88422Keywords:
Primary Health Care, Nurses, Nursing Process, Nursing CareAbstract
Objective: to identify how nurses working in the Family Health Strategy perceive the challenges and practicalities inherent to implementing the Nursing Process. Method: a convergent care research study with a qualitative approach, conducted with nurses working in the Family Health Strategy from inland Minais Gerais (Brazil) by means of reflection groups between June and July 2022, after due approval from a Research Ethics Committee. Thematic content analysis was adopted for data analysis. Results: the research participants were 13 nurses. Two categories were identified: “Challenges inherent to implementing the Nursing Process in Primary Care” and “Practicalities inherent to implementing the Nursing Process in Primary Care”. Final considerations: the challenges are characterized by work overload, by lack of material, structural and human resources and by the immediate needs of the population and the teams; in turn, legal support, rationale, smaller population groups and knowledge about the epidemiological profile stand out as practicalities.
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