Background: Nursing is considered a science in the making that recognizes the nursing process (NP) as the scientific and methodological tool to provide care. The NP is composed of five stages of which the assessment is the first and fundamental to identify the health problems of the people. This research aimed to evaluate a pedagogical didactic strategy that is based on situated constructivism, the Based-Problem Learning (BPL), in order to improve significant learning. Methods: Quantitative research with an explanatory scope, was transversal, and it was applied to 30 students of the first year of the nursing career at the Faculty of Higher Studies Iztacala, National Autonomous University of Mexico. The sample was chosen considering the inclusion criteria. Data were collected using a Likert-type instrument validated in a previous investigation. Results: The average value obtained from the Likert scale to evaluate the intervention was 103.4, the highest score was 135 and the lowest was 83, which reflects that it was evaluated as good and particularly good. The grade given to the teacher as an agent of the ZPD, was between agree and totally agree, the highest percentages scored at 93%, since it provoked challenge in their thinking, and favored interaction among classmates.

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The family provides support to its members in areas such as development and health maintenance. In order to provide assertive practices, health professionals should treat families as entities whose care processes are validated by their own members. Family care should be explored as a process where, the to do, the ought to do, and the being dimensions interact. The objective of the study was to explore the family care in the mexican population from its underlying dimensions. Methods: This was a qualitative, exploratory, and descriptive study. Results: Care in mexican families exposes three dimensions of care: the ethics in which the habits and virtuous attitudes of daily living propel the ought to do; the aesthetics in where the to do of care emerges from the sentiments towards the other, and ontology, which aims to rescue the being in the family care. Conclusions: The family care has three dimensions which interact among each other: ethics, aesthetics, and ontology; the first recovers the virtuous sense of attitudes, habits, hopes, obligations which propel the ought to do of the family, the second weights the feelings as part of the family care to convey the to do of care, and the third mobilizes the being of the family to express the care of the group through its resonances.

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La familia ha sido vista como recurso, medio, contexto o elemento donde el cuidado de, entre y por sus integrantes adquiere sentido y poco se sabe sobre los mecanismos del cuidado familiar al interior, por lo que es importante desde marcos epistémicos específicos desvelar los elementos que participan; bajo esta perspectiva esta investigación es una contribución a la salud colectiva.   El objetivo fue explorar el cuidado familiar en población mexicana como proceso. Metodología: El estudio fue cualitativo, descriptivo y exploratorio; se realizó en cinco familias mexicanas de la Ciudad de México que acuden a un dispensario médico.  La información fue recabada con la guía de entrevista y notas de campo; el análisis fue temático.   Los resultados muestran que el  cuidado familiar es un proceso autopoiético, en tanto que se establece como rasgo ontogenético, donde se aprende a cuidar en, para y por la familia transgeneracionalmente por medio de un acto de auto construcción que evita la importación indiscriminada de acciones de cuidado desde el exterior y se moviliza como bucle-recursivo, para asegurar la preservación de modelos familiares a través de un acto de adaptación que genera mecanismos de preservación del cuidado como rasgo que identifica al grupo, en donde sus valores determinan la acción cotidiana de cuidar en la familia. Conclusiones: El cuidado familiar es un proceso autopoiético en bucle recursivo, en tanto que sus integrantes experimentan cambios constantes que preservan o no desde su propia ontogenia como familia que cuida.