ATUAÇÃO DO ENFERMEIRO NA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE (APS): UMA REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA DA LITERATURA.

Primary Health Care has a fundamental role in the restructuring of the Unified Health System, with public policies aimed at strengthening it, especially with regard to Health Care Networks (RAS), which must be resolutive and having the Strategy Family Health as its main consolidation model. In this context, nursing emerges with essential functions for the care of users and their needs. The research aimed to describe the ways nurses work in PHC, through an integrative review, where it was identified that this professional works through systematized consultations in different life cycles, health promotion actions, disease prevention, support in early diagnosis from diseases, directly observed treatment, to tuberculosis, monitoring and supervision of therapeutic adherence and assistance with the use of clinical nursing protocols. Therefore, in addition to clinical competence, his work involves several types of interpersonal skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]