The Nurse’s walk with the Community Health Agent: active search for the respiratory symptomatic of tuberculosis

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to promote a dialectical construction on the active search of the respiratory symptomatic, with the community health agent as its protagonist, using problematization as a tool for transforming health education through effective participation of the nurse as assister of the process. This was a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, focusing on the Problematization of the Arch of Maguerez, with the participation of 12 community health agent of the municipality of Belém. The results were analyzed in two axes, the first one related to the social determinants of health, and the second one on the active search of the respiratory symptomatic by the agent, both observed during the home visits. With the results, the thematic was debated in three categories: problematizing to understand the active search of the respiratory symptomatic; dialogue between user/ community health agent /Nurse (researcher); health education and health education as a transformation tool in the active search of the respiratory symptomatic from community health agent perspective. Thus, it can demonstrate to the agent that its work tool is in its comprehensiveness; and that through problematization the actions of promotion and prevention with high powers of resolution can emerge, especially in the active search of respiratory symptomatic.