Enfermeiros da atenção primária e Política de Plantas Medicinais e Fitoterápicos

Abstract

This research aimed to know the nurses work process of primary health care in relation to National Politics of Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapies. In order to perceive this process, it was used the Guareschi and Kleinman s referential. It consists in a research with qualitative approach, descriptive. There were 21 participants of primary health care from 21 towns of the southern of Rio Grande do Sul. Data collection was obtained through a self-administered questionnaire in a period of June to August of 2013 and analyzed through the Minayo s operative proposal. It was observed the nurses ignorance about the primary health care; however, they evince medicinal plants in the work process. The politics is practicable, when the nurse makes groups, puts into practice the interdisciplinary dialogue, contemplates the user s cultural aspects. Internet keeps itself highlighted as a tool of communication between nurses, what opposes the recommended in continuing education.