Consulta de crescimento e desenvolvimento coletivo na Atenção Primária à Saúde: relato de experiência

Abstract

The childcare consultation must be carried out in Primary Health Care, as a routine, it is carried out by a nurse, and can be carried out by a doctor as well as having the contribution of other professionals on the team. The collective growth and development consultation is the moment in which actions are directed to the target audience, collectively, in the same physical space, where professionals socialize activities with everyone present, in an interactive and simultaneous way. Thus, considering the importance of this topic for professional training, the objective is to report the experience of a Collective Growth and Development consultation as a nursing student during the final internship of the course. This is a descriptive study, an experience report type that took place in May 2023, in the morning shift, carried out in a Basic Health Unit in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte with newborn children and caregivers. Collective growth and development activity is a tool that can be very effective in contributing to the reduction of child mortality since the exchange of experiences between caregivers, as well as knowledge shared in a group can favor more attention and care from parents with relation to the growth and development of children. It has several advantages such as strengthening ties with the community, social interaction, optimizing time, reducing anxiety by avoiding waiting for individual care, strengthening the emotional bond with the child. The challenges are the return of post-pandemic activities, engagement of other team professionals as well as other Family Health teams in the health unit. The theme needs to be expanded in the country's universities to reach health management at all levels. It must be the subject of academic work, research projects, extensions, articles, among others, in addition to combining studies with practice