“…In this context, the principles of Health Promotion emerge, which, according to the Ottawa Charter (1986), constitute the process of empowering the community to work on improving their quality of life and health, including a greater participation in the control of this process (25) . And, taking into account that the actions that people perform on a daily basis to prevent, control or reduce the impact of conditions that are sensitive to their health characterize self-care (26) , to understand and stimulate practices such as those advocated in Orem's general theory are the most genuine expressions of the applicability of Health Promotion precepts in patients with ACS. Thus, educational actions aimed at guiding and supporting the patient with SCA enable them to maintain self-care activities, and educational support is the best way to approach the individual to their pathological condition, besides providing knowledge for a better understanding, thus reaching proficiency and succeeding in applying which is recommended by Orem, that is, self-care (27) .…”