Rol de enfermería e inmunización a niños menores de 5 años en un centro de salud de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The role of the Nurse in primary or community care focuses on several functions that are: assistance, teaching, investigative and administrative; The WHO points out that primary health care requires specialized nursing personnel, since in low-income countries this care is usually provided by non-professional personnel with a lack of knowledge to individuals who live in rural areas (1). The problem identified in the present study is that the nurse has to elaborate or revise a large number of records, forms, among other functions, which probably decreases the time to exercise educational, assistance, administrative and research functions of promotion in health to the community; As a methodological design, a descriptive, prospective and analytical study was carried out for this investigation. The population considered is the professionals who work in a primary care unit of the city of Guayaquil, for the collection of data a survey was applied with 21 closed questions focused on the role of the nurse. Its main results indicate that the teaching role in children under 5 years of age fulfills 100% with educ ational programs so that the user knows the importance of the treatment, while in the care they assure in 94% that they meet professionals who they fulfill the investigative role they affirmed that they carry out nursing research for the improvement of the population and 100% of the professionals fulfill the administrative role.