A enfermagem na promoção do uso das plantas medicinais na saúde dos escolares: uma revisão integrativa

Abstract

In the course of society, medicinal plants have been used for several occasions, including the treatment of diseases. Human beings have applied knowledge from plants since the beginning of their history for medicinal purposes. Health promotion through phytotherapy involves the rescue of cultural values with community development and participation. Such educational processes involving medicinal plants provide the democratization of knowledge, dialogue, learning, as well as creative coping with health problems, with improved quality of care. The present work general objective Investigate the scientific publications of nursing interface in the promotion of the use of medicinal plants in the health of the students. Specific objectives Characterize scientific publications according to title, authorship, year of publication, country and participant audience, identify study objectives, methodological approaches and main results and learn about the contributions of nursing in promoting the use of medicinal plants in the health of students. Methodology: This is an integrative literature review, this methodological resource points to knowledge gaps and guides the development of new studies. Obeying the following phases: Identification of the theme and formulation of the guiding question for the development of the integrative review; Establishment of inclusion and exclusion criteria and literature search; Definition of the information to be extracted from the selected studies to compose the integrative review; Evaluation and categorization of studies included in the integrative review; Interpretation of results; and Knowledge synthesis. Results: The sample totaled 5 studies that showed that the meetings between nurses and students enabled dialogue between the knowledge of students and their families, seeking approximation with intergenerational and popular knowledge, as well as contributing to the development of critical thinking about the safe use of medicinal plants Final Considerations: Carrying out this participatory review with a focus on investigating scientific publications on the interface of nursing in promoting the use of medicinal plants in the health of schoolchildren, where it enabled me to verify that there is little production in relation to the subject studied, The review The integrative approach achieved the proposed objectives, including the interface of nursing in promoting the use of medicinal plants in the health of students, but we must also note that the school does have an important role in rescuing the knowledge of medicinal plants.