Gestação de alto risco na atenção primária em saúde: percepção do enfermeiro

Abstract

Objective: To reveal the perception and skills of nurses regarding the assistance to high-risk pregnant women in the context of PHC. Method: a qualitative study, with nurses in the context of Primary Health Care in the municipality of Palmeira das Missões - Rio Grande do Sul, from March to August 2020. A semi-structured questionnaire was used with the support of Bardin's content analysis for the stage of data encoding. Results and discussion: From the data analysis, two categories emerged: Characteristics of high-risk pregnant women during prenatal care in PHC, Intervention aspects and the nurse's competencies for assistance in high-risk prenatal care and four subcategories.Conclusion: By unveiling the nurse's perception and the skills used to perform women's health care in the pregnancy-puerperal process, it becomes possible to broaden the understanding about the demands, difficulties, challenges and potentialities that permeate this professional's work process . Thus, in the face of a high-risk pregnancy, the nurse's performance subsidized by knowledge, skill, sensitivity and empathy can contribute to the best practices being implemented and articulated between the primary, secondary and tertiary levels, given their experience in the process gravid-puerperal.