Atención integral de la embarazada en la comunidad

This paper is the result of nursing practice in the community,in the frame of the project “Maternal and Child Care Model”,which is oriented to a group of pregnant women in thesoutheastern part of Sincelejo and was executed during 2008and 2010. This program provides comprehensive care to itsusers according to the Technical Regulation 0412 of 2000,along with the Biopsychosocial Model proposed by the Ministryof Health, the Sexual and Reproductive Health Policyand the new millennium goals. It includes an educationalcomponent that involves the family and the couple in order tostrengthen protective factors, prevent risk factors and obtainhealthy children and mothers. For this, fifteen family historiesof the pregnant women who participated in this programwere chosen to perform an analysis of the practice of nursingstudents, taking into account socio-demographic characteristics.This research found that pregnant women identify andconnect themselves to the program and the psycoprofilacticcourse because they receive education regarding pregnancy,childbirth and postpartum, and receive effective relaxationexercises, breathing and intrauterine stimulation throughmethodologies and contextual dynamics.