Challenges for nursing education Retos para la educación en enfermería

Abstract

The identification of the needs and challenges to which nursing education must respond must go hand in hand with knowledge and analysis of the debates and demands facing higher education as an agent of change and development, not only in Latin American countries but also globally. Although enormous progress has been made in knowledge and research, significant sectors of the population still lack access to basic social services, employment, health and education, among others. That is why, faced with these situations, higher education has the responsibility to intervene because it is "a social public good, a universal human right, and a duty of the State; principles that are based on the deep conviction that access, use and democratisation of knowledge is a social, collective and strategic good, essential to guarantee basic and essential human rights for the good life of our peoples, the construction of full citizenship, social emancipation and solidarity integration" (1).