Abstract
Objective
To analyze the perception of professionals who finish nursing residency or a professional master’s degree on Primary Care regarding Advanced Nursing Practices in PHC and the required training model.
Method
A descriptive, qualitative study, carried out with a workshop with six alumni graduates of the residency program in Primary Care Nursing in Family Health and two alumni graduates of the Professional Master’s Program in Primary Care in the Unified Health System, both from the Nursing School of the University of Sao Paulo. The data were submitted to discourse analysis.
Results
Empirical categories constructed were: extension of the scope of practice and autonomy for the development of the nurse’s clinical practice, decision-making based on the best scientific evidence and on the health needs of individuals and communities, professional training (professional residency, professional master’s, concurrent residency and professional master’s) and challenges for the training and implementation of Advanced Nursing Practices.
Conclusion
The empirical categories show that, in the perception of the graduates, the Advanced Nursing Practices can expand the scope and the autonomy of the nurses’ clinical practice, based on the best scientific evidence. There are also challenges for training and implementation. The articulation of residency and professional master’s is seen as one of the effective models for the training of these nurses.
Advanced practice nursing; Primary health care; Family health strategy; Graduate education; Non-medical internship