Hacia la Promoción de la Salud · Published 2025-05-01 · DOI 10.17151/hpsal.2025.30.2.2
Introduction: Community nursing practices often emphasise disease prevention and individualised, instrumental health education within health centres. This limits engagement with communities and collectives. Objective: To interpret nursing educators’ perceptions of community practices within the framework of primary healthcare. Dates and locations: Universities in the Eje Cafetero region of Colombia, 2021–2023. Methods: Qualitative research with a critical ethnographic orientation was conducted through participant observation and ethnographic interviews with twelve educators from five universities. Data analysis followed a spiral process of coding, categorisation and identification of relationships in two stages: first within each university and second through an interpretive synthesis of all findings. The study adhered to qualitative research rigour criteria and ethical standards. Results: The central cultural theme identified was the transition to community care through health education. This was based on two cultural patterns: the transition from theoretical frameworks to the practical dimensions of community care, which converged towards risk-centred health education; and the planned praxis for culturally comprehensive family and community nursing care. Conclusions: Health education constitutes the structural axis of community care. It enables actions to be mobilised across diverse contexts and new knowledge to be constructed, grounded in concepts of knowledge, practice and praxis. This contributes scientific foundations to the field of community nursing.
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