Introduction:

One of the commitments of the nursing professional is the health care of the population. In health institutions, it is important to identify failures and successes, and establish strategies to offer health care. Objective: Promote the adequate use of the dignified treatment indicator in the nursing personnel in order to increase its effect in the care of hospitalized patients. Method: Socio-educational intervention as a pre-experimental study with pre-test-posttest carried out from February to March 2017 in a public hospital in San Luis Potosí, Mexico to 37 hospital nurses, in order to strengthen humanized care to patients; nursing knowledge was evaluated after implementing the program by contrasting the pre and post tests which was assessed using the T Student parametric test. Results: When implementing the program of socio-educational intervention for nursing personnel, an increase of 10% to 40% was obtained in everyone of the dimensions and comparing the before and after means there was a significant difference from the averages obtained, with a T Student <0.001. Conclusions: The socio-educational intervention increased the knowledge and attitudes inherent in the Dignified Treatment indicator, in order to improve patient care from the nursing personnel as the center of the intervention.