Atuação e formação do assistente social na saúde: vivências em uma unidade de assistência de alta complexidade em oncologia (UNACON)

Abstract

This course conclusion work, titled "Performance and training of social workers in health care: Experiences on Assistance Unit High Complexity Oncology (Unacon)", is a theoretical and practical construction that deals with operations and training of the social worker in a Public Teaching Hospital in the city of Santa Maria - RS. The experiment in question was seized upon insertion into a program of continuing education, the PET-HEALTH, that among the actions developed accompanies women undergoing treatment for cancer of the breast and Cervix. It is a qualitative study, whose critical reading of the lived reality is expressed through the central categories of dialectical-critical method, which initially sought to build a historical view about public health in Brazil, addressing the health reform movement and the construction of the Unified Health System (SUS), as well as some refractions of social issues that affect the health / women with cancer disease process. Following addressed the National Policy on Continuing Education in Health (PNEPS), agent of transformation of care, practice and training in health present in the work and training of social workers. To give visibility to this debate presented a practical extension that provided learning through experiences, which determine the construction of practical and theoretical for Social Service, the qualification of the intervention through the (re)construction of strategies, skills, knowledge and instrumental to achieve the objectivity of intentionality glimpsed in professional ethical-political project.