A percepção de estudantes de um curso de especialização em saúde coletiva de uma universidade pública do oeste de Santa Catarina, acerca da interprofissionalidade

Abstract

The process of strengthening and consolidating the Unified Health System (SUS) has faced challenges based on socio-political-demographic-epidemiological transformations that have increased health demands and demanded changes in their care practices from services. Such changes are guided by the need for reforms in the production of health services based on collaborative team work, with a view to ensuring the resolution of health actions and compliance with SUS principles. Thus, this article aimed to identify the perceptions of professionals working in the Health Care Network (RAS) about interprofessionality in care practices. This is an exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research, developed in 2020, in the western region of Santa Catarina. The data were collected through focus groups, treated by3 content analysis, where three categories emerged: Interprofessional Education (IPE) as an instrument to strengthen the SUS; Unveiling terms: multiprofessionality X interdisciplinarity X interprofessionality; and Advances and challenges: the interprofessional collaborative practice must be strengthened. The importance of IPE in training processes was evidenced as a starting point in the construction of shared knowledge and the development of dialogue and interaction between different professional categories. In addition, the relevance of overcoming multiprofessional practices, looking for actions, is identified. interprofessionals from an interdisciplinary perspective, due to the complexity of current health demands, and yet, the participants reveal the power of interprofessional collaborative practice in everyday care and point out challenges such as interpersonal difficulties and the reduction of prejudices between different categories as points to be addressed. overcome in search of a humanized, resolutive and integral practice.