Competencias de enfermería en la malnutrición en niños de 0-5 años del Distrito 01D03, Azuay. 2022

Abstract

In children, nutritional status constitutes the basis for sustainable progress and poverty reduction, for which nursing staff have the necessary skills and knowledge to fulfill their competencies in care, management and transversal functions that allow promoting strategies, create plans to strengthen care and precise knowledge to improve eating habits, thus improving the health of the population. OBJECTIVE: to analyze nursing skills in malnutrition in children from 0 to 5 years of District 01D03, 2022. METHODOLOGY: quantitative descriptive study, with a sample of 94 nursing professionals from District 01D03. For data collection, a survey and the ECO-Enf instrument were applied, which was adapted to child malnutrition based on the comprehensive child care guide with linguistic validation by academic peers. The analysis was performed with the SPSS-v15.0 program. RESULTS: it was obtained from the 94 nursing professionals who work in District 01D03, 60.6% are 24-29 years old, 79.8% female, 75.5% practice their profession in a time average of 0 – 5 years and 5.3% have master's degrees. CONCLUSIONS: the level of general nursing skills to address malnutrition at the first level of care in District 01D03 is high, prevailing transversal functions, in addition, the care function is perceived as very good and with limited management functions.