Challenges of municipal planning from the perspective of nurse managers.

Objectives: to analyze the municipal planning developed by nurses coordinating Primary Health Care, aimed at coping with Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases, from the perspective of the Situational Strategic Planning.

Methods: a descriptive exploratory study with a qualitative approach developed in municipalities of a Health Region of Rio Grande do Sul State. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with the Primary Health Care coordination of the municipalities of the empirical area, between 2014 and 2015.

Care handover to chronic conditions to regionalized planning.

Objective: To analyze the possibilities of the transition from care to the problem of chronic illness due to the need of regionalized municipal planning.

Method: An exploratory qualitative study was carried out in one of the Health Regions of Rio Grande do Sul, together with the Primary Health Care Coordinators.

Results: The final thematic categories that emerged from the results were: "The relationship between municipalities of the Health Region and health planning", Organizational flow of care of users with chronic diseases", and "Managing care in the health system: meeting the demands of chronically sick users".

Monitoring practices in municipal healthcare management and their interface with nursing.

Objective: To analyse the healthcare monitoring practices of the local government and its interfaces with nursing.

Methods: This is a descriptive, exploratory, and qualitative study conducted in six municipalities in the 10th health region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with six healthcare managers and one adviser, and subjected to content analysis.