Articles - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ABSTRACT

Objective:

To learn about the perceptions of the professionals who work in Primary Health Care about mental health care.

Methods:

Descriptive and qualitative study, carried out with 29 health workers through open and individual interviews. The IRaMuTeQ® software was used to organize the data which, then, was submitted to a content analysis process in the thematic modality.

Results:

Three classes emerged from the content analysis: “Perceptions about the mental health care provided in the city”, “The biomedical paradigm in mental healthcare”, and “Elements for the construction of a new way for professionals to act in mental health”.

Final considerations:

It was found that, despite the good infrastructure of the services and the elements pointed at by the professionals to create a new way to act, they do not do so, and the responsibility falls, mostly, on the psychologist to carry out these activities.

ABSTRACT

Objective:

to analyze the themes of publications on the Federal Council of Nursing (Cofen) website during Nursing Week 2020.

Method:

documentary, qualitative research, whose data sources were publications on the Cofen website from May 12 to 20, 2020. Data were processed by software IRAMUTEQ^®, through the Descending Hierarchical Classification and analyzed under the historical materialism framework.

Results:

thirty publications were analyzed, giving rise to five classes.

Final considerations:

the themes published in the period investigated pointed to the grief experienced by the category, due to the death of its members, and the fight for better working conditions. Overcoming the pandemic involves recognizing science and the Unified Health System, protecting nursing workers’ health and fighting misinformation and fake news.

ABSTRACT

Objective:

To reflect on the nursing and pandemic of COVID-19 considering health education, health promotion, and the Ottawa Charter action areas.

Methods:

A theoretical-reflexive study on health education and health promotion concepts and the areas of action presented in the Ottawa Charter.

Results:

Educational actions are present in the contexts of epidemics and pandemics, as well as in the work of nurses, who need to be increasingly based on dialogue and individual and collective empowerment to enable users to adopt healthy and preventive behaviors – in this case, concerning COVID19. However, this professional needs effective and efficient public policy actions and measures based on scientific assumptions of health promotion. Final considerations: The actions of health education need to be increasingly valued because knowledge can be considered the first “vaccine” to combat any pandemic.