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Introduction: The educational function of the nursing role is considered an instance of link with the community. Objective: to unveil health promotion practices based on educational radio advertisements of nurses in 1983 in Chile. Material and method: qualitative perspective, with linguistically oriented discourse analysis, and review of the literature in databases: Scielo, Google scholar, Science direct, with keywords: community health nursing, role of the nurse, health education, history of nursing. Results: the education function in the nursing role shows power edges and is associated with the political context of the time. The care of the child and the family is associated with the responsibility of the woman, with explicit instructions that the mother must comply with in order to obtain optimal health for her children. Hygiene measures such as hand washing are strongly instilled in the prevention of infectious - contagious diseases. Discussion and Conclusion: Health promotion, exercised as a radio educational activity, was an alternative for linking and channeling with the most vulnerable population, to achieve states of family well-being and made it possible to make visible the educational function of the role of professional nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]