THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ROLE OF NURSES IN PREVENTIVE ACTIONS AGAINST COVID-19 IN SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS

Abstract

The present research had as objective to verify of the nurse role importance as an health educator in preventive actions against Covid - 19 in school environments. The panorama of the combating against coronavirus began to see the role of nursing in the school environment as achievements in the middle of the pandemic, highlighting the challenges found by nursing professionals in the scientific school community in health education. To support this, were sought readings of literature extracted from books, articles, scientific works, legal documents as: Brazil, Ministry of Health (MS) and Mystery of Education (MEC), COFEN nº 631/2020, among others. The methodological procedures focused in a bibliographic and documentary research with exploratory studies, where we sought to elaborate an early study preliminary of previously published materials. Moreover, the research presented a qualitative analysis seeking to interpret it in terms of its meaning, bringing information from the speeches presented in the materials used that approached about this study that covered the context of the role’s Nurse in preventive measures against COVID-19 for the school environment. Those published were from 1974 to 2020. The results found in the research pointed to predictable solutions that allowed the development of innovative actions, and in an attempt to search for strategies, it brought the proposal to promote courses during the school period taught by a nurse, offering theoretical and practical knowledge to prevent against Covid- 19. All this direction listed in the information and action of nursing. It also showed that nurses are prepared to realize preventive actions aimed to Covid-19 not only in the hospital environment, but also in the school environment, providing more theoretical and practical knowledge. The final considerations propose a national context that is significant and contributes to the advancement of knowledge in the area of nursing with the need to accelerate and minimize the consequences caused by Covid-19, through intervention actions and guidance innovations in schools coming from professionals actively in the front line, even though it presents regional inequalities in the process of production of this knowledge.