Nursing interfaces in rural care: An integrative review

Abstract

Objective: to know the issues in evidence in rural nursing. Method: a six-stage integrative review. Data was collected from May to July 2017, in the SciELO, CUIDEN, PubMed, and ScienceDirect databases, with “Rural nursing” as descriptor. The analysis used was qualitative with the construction of subsets and topics. Results: of the 30 articles analyzed, 32% addressed professional training; 25% collective health-related practices; 12% hospital care; 10% job satisfaction; 7% were dedicated to telehealth and 3% of the studies addressed the following topics: nurses’ recruitment and permanence in rural areas, continuing education, and professional practice in urgency and emergency regulation centers. Conclusion: working in rural areas demands that nurses face particularities such as isolation, difficulty of access, diverse socioeconomic conditions and specific epidemiological profiles, which influence the professional practice, making it a challenge.