NURSING ACADEMIC'S ROLE IN THE HEALTH EDUCATION PROCESS IN PRIMARY CARE: A REFLECTIVE STUDY

Abstract

Primary health care is characterized by a set of actions related to comprehensive and integral health, based on the guidelines and principles of the Unified Health System (First Contact, Longitudinality, Integrality and Coordination), which covers the promotion and protection of health, prevention of aggravation, diagnosis and treatment, with the aim of providing humanized care. The present study is characterized by reflecting on the importance of the nursing student in the process of education and health in primary care, and also by contextualizing the teaching and learning process of undergraduate students for their training. Having your data collected electronically by the Virtual Health Library (BVS), in the databases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS), Nursing Database (BDENF), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO). It is concluded that primary health care (PHC) is the first contact that the population has with health systems and that its purpose is to understand the complexity of each case, whether individual or in groups, and thus direct the patient for adequate care, allowing students to be inserted in the reality of their future workplace, allowing a broader and more humanized view of the patient, and accompanying the routine of the nursing team, also allowing academics to see the qualities and the shortcomings of the unified health system, and they, as academics, can start thinking right now to solve eventual problems and generate changes in society.