El cuidado espiritual: Una propuesta con base en las prácticas tradicionales de una comunidad indígena nahua

Abstract

This paper outlines the findings from research named "Traditional and spiritual care practices in a Nahua, indigenous community" (García, 2015; García Piña, Cardoso Gómez, Serrano Sánchez & Ostiguín Meléndez, 2015), in which spirituality elements were identified as coping strategies for the health-diseasedeath processes. Those results were complemented with a documental review. Objective: To claim on the caring strategies, on a specific social, cultural and historical context, that promotes the improvement of the nursing practice in the Mexican context. Method: Theoretical-inductive documentary analysis. Results: Communities are built from common goals and objectives, which arise as health-disease-death processes in its own particular perspective. Conclusion: nursing has as one of its main functions, to rescue people's individual and collective response, for coping with every life situation; allowing that care itself, becomes a mutual feedback exercise.