Rede de saúde do trabalhador da fronteira oeste: ações dos enfermeiros

Abstract

Introduction: Nursing is a health profession, a discipline in the field of science which studies human care and which is realized as work done historically in societies. One can also identify areas of knowledge that the particularity of this study focuses on the nursing work that carries out activities including hygiene and environmental safety and preventive medicine and promoting health. These actions are normalized since 2002, through Ordinance No. 1679 that created the National Network of Comprehensive Care Health worker with the aim of spreading worker health actions, articulated in other networks of the Unified Health System. Note the paucity of attention on the actions of Occupational Health spectrum, especially for defining the professional do an interdisciplinary approach. Objectives: The objectives are to know the actions of nursing health worker's western border network, identify those involved in the development of nursing practice and health of workers and learn the purposes of nursing actions designed to meet the needs of workers. Methodology: It is an exploratory research, descriptive and analytical, cross the nursing work process in workers' health network of the western border of Rio Grande do Sul developed with 09 nursing professionals through semi-structured interview technique recorded. It was used as inclusion criteria found in professional practice in the period of data collection and accept and consent in writing their participation. Exclusion criteria were adopted professionals who are covering off, vacation or leave of a staff member. We applied a qualitative thematic analysis to the set of information. For the organization of data has built a database in Microsoft Word 2010 version. Results: Among the actions developed in workers' health network there are the management and care actions. These actions are performed by professionals responsible for Visat that sometimes receive professional help in monitoring municipal health. They are developed in order to implement promotion and prevention of diseases and accidents, are directed to workers, who look for service and students and health professionals. Conclusion: The work process in health worker is still under development. The shares are incipient and centered in the perspective of maintaining attention to affected by diseases or industrial accidents workers, most professional point perform their actions in partnership with the Municipal Center for Occupational Health team, and others alone, which shows that the functioning of labor health care system has flaws in the process. The purpose of nursing work is worker protection. Thus, health promotion is making the environment and the employee of the year, safer. They are directed to workers in general, and also for those who are interested and searching service.