Atuação dos profissionais de enfermagem como gestores nas unidades de saúde familiar

Abstract

The Unified Health System (SUS) is an existing health program in Brazil, available to all citizens. This program is operated through social security, because when the population pays their taxes, part of them reverts to health. One of the creations of the SUS was the Family Health Unit (USF) to provide primary care to patients in a particular location, and each USF created is managed by a nursing professional. The nurse's duties in a USF are to lead, plan, coordinate and carry out administrative and health activities so that citizens are satisfied with the service provided, but for that, the nurse has the help of the Community Health Agent (CHA) . This article aims to analyze the role of the nurse as a manager in the USF. For this, articles that were linked to the research objective were investigated in the specialized literature in order to perform a more accurate data analysis. Eighteen articles, published between 2005 and 2019, were selected. The main results show that nurses feel overloaded due to the care and management work that needs to be performed daily, the often inadequate infrastructure, lack of materials, lack of training, among others. others. However, they point out that patient satisfaction is their main motivation for continuing their work.