<b>Nurse home visit as a strategy for health education</b> - doi: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v9i3.6856

Abstract

This descriptive and bibliographic research aimed to analyze the nurse home visits (HV), focusing health education. The online search in national journals was done in the databases LILACS and Scielo, including articles published between 1998 and 2010, and approaching this research’s theme. By means of Content Analysis, thematic category we identified four categories after the analysing of their content, namely: The concept of home visit; Benefits and advantages of the home visit; Difficulties and weaknesses of the home visit and Nursing educational practice in home visits (HV). The concepts of home visit presented by authors were diverse. The main benefits of the visit are related to the link between the health team and the community. Difficulties reported by authors referred mainly to the lack of training. Nursing health educational practice is effective at the visits. Thus, it is believed that the nurse home visit (HV) process can improve, considering professionals’ and community’s perceptions, and specially favoring health education.