The Family Health Program: perceptions of physicians and nurses about their darly work

This study was carried out using qualitative interviews with physicians and nurses working in the Family Health Program in the northwest region of Rio Grande do Sul State. It aimed to comprehend the perception of these professionals regarding their daily work with the FHP, in relation to their role, their performance, and especially, whether this strategy is reorganizing the quotidian practice of health care. The study is based on comprehensive sociology. After transcribing the interviews verbatim and their analysis the categories of study were described: The Need for Change and to Rethink in Health; The Changes in the quotidian of the Family Health Teams; Limits which are Imposed; and The Feelings of the Professionals in Relation to the FHP. The analysis conducted from the discourses about the comprehension of the physicians and nurses regarding the FHP and its performance revealed, in this study, that the changes initiated with the implementation of this healthcare model are creating small but important changes in the implementation of the SUS