This is a historical-sociological research about the background and philosophical foundations that bases the performance of the professional nursing staff in Mexico, to know and recognize the urgent needs to move from the paradigm of health and disease to life-health. This responds to the needs of the population in the area of health in a society where the attention is to disease rather than to health, and being given at a hospital system and at high costs. This is a research whose methodology was based on the sociology approach of the professions, supported by in-depth interviews. The study population was a group of 10 nurses from a second-level public health care hospital. The results indicate that while nursing care is given at a hospital area, the paradigm life-health will take time to be settled in and to be done by the nurses.
Nursing; Nursing Care; Delivery of Health Care