Nursing care for people with disabilities in Primary Health Care

Abstract

Objective: to analyze the nurse's care for people with disabilities in Primary Health Care. Method: Integrative literature review guided by the following question: What is the role of nurses in caring for people with disabilities in Primary Health Care? The search was carried out in the databases: Database in Nursing, Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences, PubMed that includes the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Thesis Bank of the Coordination for the Improvement of Personnel Level Superior and Virtual Library of the Scientific Electronic Library Online; articles published in the period from 2008 to 2017. Results: Eleven studies were included in the selection, which after analyzing three categories were constructed: barriers to communication, barriers to access and barriers to understanding disability. Conclusion: It became evident that the inclusion of people with disabilities in health services is still marked by numerous challenges.