Advanced practice nursing (apn) and primary health care (phc) in Brazil: A theoretical-scientific survey

The objective was to relate through the theoretical-scientific reference the Advanced Practice of Nursing and Primary Health Care in Brazil. Descriptive study, integrative review, where the theoretical-scientific survey was carried out by crossing the following Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCs): “Advanced Nursing Practice” and “Primary Health Care”, with the use of Boolean operators AND, and OR, through the VHL, in the SciELO Virtual Library and LILACS Database. Data collection took place in March 2022, strictly complying with the inclusion criteria: articles available in full text; in the main languages of world scientific research: Portuguese, English and Spanish; open access, published between the years 2016 to 2022, and as exclusion criteria: duplicate articles and that did not match the guiding question of the study, 12 articles remained, which made up the final sample of this research. The discussion on the incorporation of Advanced Practice Nurses in Brazil and Latin America began in 2013 with the launch by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) of the resolution Human Resources for Health: expanding access to qualified health professionals in health systems based on Primary Health Care (PHC). The Brazilian scenario has great potential for the insertion of EPA into PHC and that nurses need to seek articulations with their class entities for the development of this specialty. Nursing practices are highlighted and are particularly associated with disability prevention and health promotion.