Perception of health professionals about shared care between primary care and home care

Abstract

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand how health professionals perceive the shared care between the teams of Primary Health Care and Home Care Service. Method: descriptive study, with a qualitative approach, carried out with 17 professionals, in the municipality of Campo Grande, MS. Data were collected from August to October 2019, through semi-structured audio-recorded interviews and submitted to content analysis. Results: lack of knowledge, lack of qualification, lack of ordering of care and weakness in counter-referral were some of the challenges mentioned for shared care. However, interinstitutional visits, communication, discussion of cases, action planning, were perceived as strategies to carry it out. Final considerations: professionals perceive that home care is permeated by limitations and weaknesses in relation to the effectuation of shared care between the different health teams.

Keywords

• Primary health care
• Nursing
• Home nursing
• Family health
• Home care services