Actitudes y aptitudes de los profesionales de enfermería en la promoción de la salud de acuerdo al modelo de Nola Pender, Cantón Cañar 2022

Abstract

Back Background: in public health settings, the role of nursing in health promotion and prevention has made a difference in the health team; possibly due to their training and the attitudes and aptitudes for their performance in the areas of the first level of care using various health promotion methodologies; within the framework of a biologic, curative, medicalized system. Objective: to describe the attitudes and skills of nursing professionals in health promotion according to the Nola Pender model in Cantón Cañar 2022. Methodological design: qualitative-ethnographic study, voluntary convenience sampling, under the criterion of theoretical saturation by snowball, applying semi-structured interviews to 9 nursing professionals from the first level of care district 03D02, parliaments that were categorized and coded using Atlas.ti (v.22). Results: 43 codes emerged grouped into themes: 1 nursing action in health promotion, 2. Pender model in the community context focused on promotion, and 3. interventions based on comprehensive health needs; three categories encompass the study phenomenon: attitudes, aptitudes and health promotion. Conclusions: nursing professionals from the Canton of Cañar show outstanding attitudes and skills related to health promotion, using the Pender model as a reference, highlighting that they are positive when changing behaviors in the population; and negative due to limitations in the environment due to lack of recognition; This observed reality shows that nursing is fully aware of its responsibility in health care.