Potencialidades e limitações da atuação do enfermeiro no Centro Parto Normal

• Main Author: Ferreira Júnior, Antonio Rodrigues
• Publication Date: 2021
• Other Authors: Brandão, Luciana Camila dos Santos, Teixeira, Ana Carolina de Melo Farias, Cardoso, Alexandrina
• Format: Article
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/37665
• topic: Obstetric Nurses; Humanized Birth; Professional Role

Objective: To know the potentialities and limitations of the nurse’s performance in the Center for Normal Birth (CPN). Method: Qualitative approach, exploratory-descriptive type, carried out in 2018, with six nurses working in public intra-hospital CPN in the metropolitan region of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil. The collection of information occurred through individual interview, with analysis from the assumptions of the sociology of professions, focusing on the themes: knowledge and autonomy; credentialism; division of labor; labor market and value chart. Result: The nurse’s performance in the Center for Normal Birth (CPN)enhances good practices for childbirth and birth, as well as increases the importance and visibility of this professional in maternal and child care. Clinical care and management emerge as the focus of the nurse’s action in the CPN. However, even with the induction of the State to this action, there is still the need for recognition of the competencies and autonomy of the nurse in obstetric care by other professionals. Conclusion and implications for practice: There are challenges that need to be overcome such as the expansion of autonomy and respect for the accreditation of the nurse to work in the CPN and the harmonization between the management of the work process and management of clinical care by this professional.