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Metas de Enfermería

Metas de Enfermería

DICIEMBRE 2000 N° 31 Volumen 3

Health Education

Section: Cover story

Authors

Mª Teresa Luis Rodrigo

Contact address

Escuela de Enfermería de la Universidad de Barcelona. Avda. Feixa Llarga, s/n. 08907 Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona.

Abstract

It is not new to say that the field of health care has gone through big changes over a short period of time. It is neither to declarethat nurses, as all the health professionals, have had to adopt themselves to those changes, sometimes to fast. However, thisadaptation process has entailed for nurses a great effort given the meaning of moving from nursing care based in intuition toscientific based care. This change was necessary for nurses to survive in a health world that becomes more complex andcompetitive every day.

One of the changes nurses had to face up, not a minor one, was the need of teaching patients how to self manager their healthcondition. Although nowadays being health professionals nobody denies this responsibility and even when nurses recognized andaccepted to fulfil it long time ago, the achieved results are not always as good as should be.

Keywords:

nursing; health educationlearning domains

Versión en Español

Título:

Educación para la salud