Abstract

Enshrined in Chile’s Health Reform, health education has become a key goal in strengthening behaviours that support and complement prevention, recuperation and rehabilitation. This implies a reflection on how the process of education can develop within an inpatient facility. Our proposed objective is to study the degree of importance that nurses ascribe to health education, and how they manage to incorporate health education into their professional practice. This is a qualitativeresearch with a phenomenological orientation, which will include eight nurses who are developing their professional practice in a Medium Complexity Level Unit within a High Complexity Level Hospital. We will use phenomenological interviews, which we will analyse according to the moments of the methodological trajectory. The nurses’ professional perceptions will be revealed and will be able to guide a change in professional practice, which will in turn enable the nurses to offer personalized and holistic health education.