Advisory teams on the streets: A nurse's experience report.
Tatiana Ferraz de Araújo Alecrim, Pedro Fredemir Palha, Jaqueline Garcia de Almeida Ballestero and 1 others
PMID 35876463WHAT IT FOUND
Nurses working with São Paulo street teams describe building care for homeless people by mapping where they are, returning to the same places, and offering baths, dressings, medication, TB treatment, and referrals in a single visit.
Key findings
01The report describes mapping where homeless people are and returning to the same places and times as ways to make the team a reference.
02Registered homeless people are supported by being accompanied by the reference health agent to the first primary care visit, and care is strengthened when several services are provided in a single visit.
03Nurses coordinate direct street procedures and follow-up, including blood pressure and capillary blood glucose measurement, oral and injectable medication administration, and directly observed tuberculosis treatment.
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What it does not show
It is a report by a nurse, not a study of patients or teams. No data collection, interviews, records, or outcomes were analysed. The author states the results cannot be generalized and may change if other professionals narrated them. It describes what nurses do, but does not test whether those actions improve health.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that street nursing teams improve health outcomes. It is a nurse's experience report with no patient data, no comparison group, and no measured results.