TENDENCIES AND PROSPECTS OF NURSING SCIENCE.
Abstract
To think about nursing as science has only happened from the last decades of the past century because of the scientific study of the phenomena that integrate the care of the human health. The millenarian knowledge and the historical and philosophical dimensions about human care have outlined the role of the caretakers in both, temporal and space context until arriving to be defined within the framework of a profession from the nineteenth century with the contributions of Nightingale. With her, a stage begins, where new practices are tried to solve educative and administrative problems until 1950. From that moment, a period of investigation and theoretical development starts. However, the present state of the structure of nursing is incipient. This historical moment appears like decisive for the growth of nursing science. Therefore, that attachment lines are proposed for professional acting: develop own theoretical bases; consolidate thought patterns of nursing; reaffirm abilities; generate evidences around the care to confront the theory in practice; develop the art of care. With regard to the teaching of this subject: develop an integrating vision in the educative institutions about care; impregnate the curriculum transversally with the concept of care from personal experiences of the human health. Concerning administration: strenghten the independent work; construct a contingencial model of management; recognize the multidimensionality of the process of attention of health to organize the nursing care. About the investigation: stimulate and promote the production of investigation in all the sphers of nursing; theoretical investigations and field work, local, regional and multicentral; generate spaces of communication and discussion of the scientific product. It is fundamental to integrate art and science in the act of care, starting with an aesthetic, wished, reflective and independent praxis to contribute to the development of the tendencies concerning its knowledge and doing.Downloads
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