Educação permanente em saúde e interface com a gestão do cuidado.

The nurse should adopt the managerial administrative practice during the decision-making processes, aiming to achieve better health care results, with the use of permanent education in health so that knowledge production occurs among the team, based on the problems experienced, qualifying and forming the team. The objective was to analyze the nurses' perception about the use of Permanent Education in Health in the management of care. This is an exploratory, descriptive, qualitative approach, in which 15 supervising nurses from a public hospital in the South of Brazil participated. Data were collected from May to July 2014, through the Culture Circle. From the results of the analysis emerged two thematic axes: Permanent Education in Health as a strategy for the improvement of the management of the care indicated that the Permanent Education consists of a valuable strategy to the improvement of the management of the care and; Possibilities and weaknesses in the operationalization of the Permanent Education in Health, in which the intention of the nurses was verified in implanting the logic of the Permanent Education in the institution. However, centralized management was pointed out as a factor that hinders this initiative. It is concluded that despite the institutional and professional fragilities, nurses perceive Permanent Education as a potent strategy to improve the management of care and seek to implement it in the service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]