Self-care in primary health care in the nursing career

Self-care of health, basic in primary care, deserves to be reinforced in the training of Nursing professionals. The objective of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of a proposal for teaching self-care in primary health care (PHC) aimed at teachers and students of said career for the promotion of self-care. This analytical, longitudinal, and prospective study, with a pre-experimental design, was carried out at the Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí, in Ecuador. 187 5th and 8th grade students were selected. semesters and the total number of teachers (n: 14) who teach PHC-related subjects, in order to make a diagnosis of the level of knowledge about self-care, establish a competency profile and propose organized methodologies in a didactic proposal to be incorporated into Nursing career