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Objectives: to acknowledge and compare the health promotion and complications’ prevention
practices performed by nurses working in hospital and primary health care contexts. Methods:
descriptive, exploratory and crosscutting study, performed with 474 nurses selected by
convenience sampling. It was used a form that encompassed two categories of descriptive
statements about quality in the professional exercise of nurses. This study had ethical committee
approval. Results: the nurses’ population was mainly women (87,3%) with an average age of
35,5 years. There was more practices of the hospital’s nurses related to the identification of
potential problems of the patient (p=0.001) and supervision of the activities that put in place
the nursing interventions and the activities that they delegate (p=0.003). Conclusion: the nurses
perform health promotion and complications’ prevention activities, however not in a systematic
fashion and professional practices differ by context. This study is relevant as it may promote the
critical consciousness of the nurses about the need of stressing quality practices.
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Health Promotion Nursing Patient-Centered Care
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Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto