Aprender no trabalho: uma vivência no semiárido nordestino

Abstract

Introduction: Continuing health education (EPS) is configured as a proposal for learning in and through work, through which the teaching-learning process is incorporated into daily work with the possibility of transforming professional practices. In this perspective, the Ministry of Health instituted, in 2004, the National Policy for Permanent Education in Health (PNEPS) as a strategy to encourage the training of workers, seeking to articulate qualified initiatives to face the needs of the Unified Health System (SUS). The PNEPS has interprofessional work as its central element, as the interaction between the different professions is itself a space for learning. This space, materialized by teamwork in the bowels of a family health team as a condition to implement health care in Primary Care. Objective: To understand how the workers of the Family Health Strategy (ESF) perceive teamwork as an element of Permanent Health Education in Primary Care (AB). Methodology: This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research carried out with workers from health of a family health team in the city of Currais Novos - RN. Data collection took place through two meetings structured as critical reflective workshops to discuss the themes teamwork in AB and Permanent education at work in the context of AB. The narratives produced during the Workshop were recorded, transcribed and organized in order to enable a critical thematic analysis Results: From the meetings, it was observed that health workers perceive the importance of teamwork in the AB context, as well as understand this as an important and decisive point in solving users' demands. Regarding the EPS, the perception was observed that the AB work field demands constant needs and that in the day-to-day work, learning happens through sharing with colleagues. However, workers do not perceive such sharing as EPS and work as a training potential, often understanding that training only happens when there is a formal and “standard” moment promoted by health management.