O processo de planejamento de uma proposta de intervenção educativa utilizando a Caderneta da Criança como ferramenta pedagógica para a qualificação profissional na Atenção Primária

Abstract

The Child’s Health Booklet is intended for monitoring children's growth and development through the systematization of comprehensive care actions, attentiveness and early detection of developmental problems. However, the literature reveals its underutilization, technical unpreparedness, gaps in knowledge and commitment of health professionals. The emergence of congenital Zika syndrome, between 2015 and 2017, affected a significant number of children in childcare in the state of Rio de Janeiro and reinforced the need for strategies aspiring the excellence of network care. Covid-19 changed the methodological paradigm for offering training supported by information and communication technologies, aiming at greater capillarity of qualification in the territories. The objective of the study was to describe the planning process of an educational proposal of the Health Secretariat of the State of Rio de Janeiro to monitor child growth and development, using the Child’s Health Booklet for professional qualification in Primary Health Care (PHC). The case study was chosen through a qualitative approach, using the documentary research of an intra-sectoral process, inserted in the state planning, between 2017 and 2021, focused on the thematic and conjunctural contextualization of the emergence and political-administrative conduction of the process. The classification of 145 documents resulted in 34 main units, whose critical analysis allowed to map the “back and forth” of this process in correspondence with the administrative processes and the change from the initial educational proposal of blended learning to distance learning, associated with a digital device, to guide and enhance the use of the instrument. The results evidenced the reality of a process submitted to a traditional, vertical, of a bureaucratic nature institution with difficulties translated into challenges faced due to the Pandemic crisis, adoption of remote work, shortage of the Child’s Health Booklet in Rio de Janeiro, government and institutional governance crises. In addition, documental hypertrophy, slowness at the origin in contrast to the fast processing in the electronic information System, fragile integration of strategic planning and of intra-sectoral work to carry out educational actions. Formal requirements and unpredictability of execution imposed the cancellation of the digital proposal and the transfer of part of the actions to 2022. The limitation of the method was noted considering the impossibility of completing interviews with key informants. It is considered that the study can inspire new research on planning processes and education strategies mediated by innovation and communication technologies within the Secretariat, creating a culture of innovation in the professional qualification processes of PHC in Rio de Janeiro.