The construction of Nursing practices. Training in healthcare for diabetics in a community context

In recent decades we have witnessed social and technical changes in all the sciences. Nursing is no exception, and to keep up to date one has to develop skills and practices that should derive from the training administered. In this background it is essential to question the professional practices, centring them on training in the workplace, based on the assumption that training implies the social actors in their entirety. The population selected was diabetics in the community context, researching the problem in their natural environment, which calls for integrated responses. We analyse the training dynamics that occur in the diabetes healthcare project, where the socialisation process is intertwined with health training. The methodology used was a case study. The unit of analysis was the health centre in which the project was carried out. To collect the empirical information we used participant observation, semi-structured interviews with diabetics and nurses and to complement the data we undertook a document analysis. Through this research we intend to contribute to the understanding and development of Nursing practices through an approach centred on people and their contexts.