Resumen

ISLAS-SALINAS, P.; PEREZ-PINON, A.  y  HERNANDEZ-OROZCO, G.. The role of nursing in the health education of the Mennonites from the symbolic interactionism approach. Enferm. univ [online]. 2015, vol.12, n.1, pp.28-35. ISSN 2395-8421.

This work derives from an ethnographic qualitative research; and its object of study is the health education to persons belonging to the Mennonite culture, as well as these persons' beliefs and perceptions on the health-illness process. From the data analysis, a need surges to explore the relationship between the Mennonite users and the nursing staff at the health centers of the Coloured community in Cuauhtemoc, Chihuahua, México. Objective: To show the importance of nursing as a health education agent for different cultures. The interaction nurse-patient-family as proposed from the Joan Riehl Sisca nursing model is considered as the central core. Method: Study with a phenomenological qualitative focus. Data were obtained by means of in-depth interviews to nurses and the analysis of the field diaries of nursing students in their clinical practice at the gynecology and obstetrics city hospital. The categories found allowed a description of the participants' perceptions about treating patients from a different culture. The validation criteria were conformed by triangulation of the reliability and confirmability data. Results: The analyzed data are shown through two categories: 1) lack of knowledge of the Mennonite culture, and 2) desire to offer holistic care. Conclusions: Students and nursing staff referred that when they achieve an understanding of the Mennonite cosmos-vision, they get a high degree of satisfaction for the offered care, and they discover a sense of high self-efficacy.

Palabras llave : Health education; Mennonites; Nursing; Symbolic interactionism; Mexico.