PROCESS OF SOCIAL SUPERVISION IN NURSING: POSSIBILITY OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE ASSISTENCIAL MODEL PROCESS OF SUPERVISION IN NURSING

• Main Authors: Valesca Silveira Correia, Maria Lúcia Silva Servo
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia 2013-05-01
• Series: Revista Saúde.com
• Subjects: Nursing; Supervisory; Family Health; Health Planning
• Online Access: http://www.uesb.br/revista/rsc/ojs/index.php/rsc/article/view/195/230

This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study which has been carried out with the nurses of the Family Health Unit. It aimed to understand the social representation of the nurses on the process of social supervision in Nursing in the health strategy of the family. An semi-structured interviewand a focal group have been used as the technique for data collection. As for the analysis of the data, Bardin’s analysis of content has been used. The study showed that the situacional strategical planning, the work in team and the use of the techniques and instruments of supervision are strategies to be considered for the development of the process of social supervision in the health strategy of the family. However, the nurses showed representations which are supported by the traditional supervision when they conceive the disassociated planning of the execution and when they are reveal that they are influenced by the model of sanitarist compaign care in their professional practice. It is concluded that the social representations of the nurses concerning the process of social supervision in the team of health of the family points out to the necessity of to a new dimension of vision of the practices in health through the social supervision, in view of the health of the family as proposal tochange the hegemonic assistencial model.