Continuing education and its interfaces with ambulatory care sensitive conditions
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https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.2017000600013Keywords:
Primary Health Care, Education, Continuing, Nursing, Hospitalization.Abstract
Objective: to understand the process of continuing education by primary health care nurses and their interfaces with ambulatory care sensitive conditions. Methods: a qualitative study was carried out with 14 nurses from health units. To collect the data, we used semi-structured interviews and the analysis was carried out through dialectical hermeneutics. Results: two categories emerged: Assistance in primary health care and hospital admissions – which pointed out that the major cause of hospitalizations is related to chronic diseases, and that most of them were preventable; Education: a tool to deal with ambulatory care sensitive conditions – where continuing education is recognized as a tool to interfere in the occurrence of these hospitalizations, but the practices carried out are closer to continuing education. Conclusion: nurses have developed educational processes that are closer to continuing education. The relationship between continuing education and ambulatory care sensitive conditions is still incipient.Downloads
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2018-01-09
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Silva, C. E. M., Friedrich, D. B. de C., Farah, B. F., & Silva, K. L. (2018). Continuing education and its interfaces with ambulatory care sensitive conditions. Rev Rene, 18(6), 794–802. https://doi.org/10.15253/2175-6783.2017000600013
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