DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED BY NURSES IN CONTINUING HEALTH EDUCATION: INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

This article sought to identify, in the literature, the difficulties of nurses in implementing permanent health education. It is an integrative literature review, with data search in October 2024 in the databases Scientific Electronic Library Online, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online and Nursing Database, from primary articles published in the Portuguese language, between the years of 2019 and 2024. Sixty-seven studies were identified in the primary search; seven were included. Five categories related to the implementation of permanent health education by nurses emerged, with emphasis on institutional issues (inadequate infrastructure, materials, equipment and incentives) and routine, fatigue, overload or high demand for work. The data show different limiting factors to implement permanent education by nurses in health services, with emphasis on organizational issues and work process. Understanding these elements favor the decision-making by managers, because it allows to adopt actions that allow to minimize these difficulties and, consequently, advance in this political pedagogical to overcome the dichotomy between theory and practice of nursing professionals present in traditional models of teaching.