Abstract
Objective:
To describe the organization of the work of the Nurse in primary health care in the Brazilian regions.
Methods:
Cross-sectional study of secondary data from the external evaluation of the National Program for Improving Access and Quality of Primary Care (PMAQ), which included 17482 ESF, and other primary care models, adherent to the program, in 3,972 participating municipalities, covering all Brazilian states.
Results:
Highlights a differentiated position of the professional Nurse in the primary health care staff, pointing to the expansion of the limits of professional performance, adding administrative activities to the practices of direct assistance to the user.
Conclusions:
The insertion of Nurses in primary healthcare staff has brought new models in the care production with a new standard for the production of care, which alters not only the mode of organization of the production process, in conformity with the interests of capital, but reverses the core of the care's technology.
Keywords:
Primary Health Care; Family Health; Health Evaluation; Nursing