Challenges of nursing care for children with chronic conditions in primary health care

Abstract

Objective:  To analyze the nursing work in the care of children with chronic conditions in Primary Health care.

Methods:  A qualitative study was developed through interviews with 23 nursing professionals from 16 Basic Health Units in the city of Belo Horizonte. Data were analyzed from the critical perspective seeking to identify common themes in the empirical material.

Results:  Showed up the contradictions and challenges of a practice that began for the group of children with chronic conditions. Nursing work takes a strategic and transversal place in the care of these children, which is not limited to a specific action, but that merges caring dimension of health work.

Conclusion:  There is a need to advance the care organization offering more coherent actions to the needs of children with chronic conditions in order to allow greater expression of knowledge and own nursing doings.