Advanced Nursing Practice in the context of Primary Health Care in Brazil: documentary research
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Objective
To categorize Advanced Nursing Practice activities in Brazil, registered in the Health Production reporting platform of the Health Information System for Primary Care, by nurses from Primary Health Care.
Methods
a documentary, exploratory, nationwide study conducted in 2024, based on public data available on websites linked to the Ministry of Health in Brazil, reference year in 2023.
Results
the analysis matrix represents a comparative conceptual structure that demonstrates the evidence of advanced practices that have been assumed and recorded by nurses in the SUS data system, with open access.
Final considerations
The study shows that, despite the autonomy of nurses in practices such as medication prescription, test request, referral, IUD insertion, suturing and other interventions, the Brazilian policy still presents discrepancies in relation to the ICN and WHO guidelines.
