A formação complementar dos enfermeiros do sistema público de saúde de Santa Cruz do Sul à luz de políticas públicas de capacitação.

Abstract

The study is an attempt to describe and analyze the complementary training of nurses in the public health system of Santa Cruz do Sul concerning public policies on health training, as well as how they perceive it, the influence on their work and personal life. This study is characterized as a case study, exploratory and descriptive, using interviews as a research tool. It consists of a brief history of health education started in the political opening of 1986 and discusses how the work uses these tools, the interests at stake and the opinion of the target of these policies. The study allowed us to get in touch with the beliefs and opinions of professionals who are placed in health assistance, recognized in the literature of politics as “street level bureaucracy”, in other words, a Professional who is in front of the system and is in charge of the application of health policies. The interviewed consider the complementary training offered by public programs is inadequate, and posses it is a need for work, which always ends up creating incrise personal and professional. The discussion on the data collected allows us to obtain an indication of how the trinomial health-education-labor is functioning in Santa Cruz do Sul. The study serves as a starting point to consider changes in order improve the system.