Analysing the past of Nursing to enable us to plan for the future
Section: LEARNING TO TEACH
Authors
Ana Gracia Pérez Peraza, Mª Amparo Díaz Martínez
Position
Estudiantes de Enfermería, de la EUE "La Fe". Valencia.
Contact address
Plaza Federico Mayo, 5, pta 5. 46022 Valencia.
Contact email: correoanma@yahoo.es
Abstract
Nowadays, nursing is retaking the fundamental objective of its true professional role and is focusing on the human being who is need of care, taking this care as the main role of the nursing activity. By analysing the past we are able to plan a seamless future, or a future with the fewest possible gaps, enabling us to become conscious of those events of our past that were an impediment for our professional development. It also enables us to corroborate some issues that had always been “assumed”, and to reinforce our conviction that the history of nursing is written from the eyes of a “women”. This, in itself, is a transcendental fact in the evolution of nursing if we take into account that the role women have played in society is not a direct result of what they have done but rather the result of the sense that society has given to the role they play in the daily routine.
History shows a dialogue between the events of the past and the objectives of the future that progressively emerge, and because of this, to get to know our history will help us to plan our future, or, in Ma. Paz Mompart´s quoted words “Nursing as poetry, is a weapon charged with the future”.
History shows a dialogue between the events of the past and the objectives of the future that progressively emerge, and because of this, to get to know our history will help us to plan our future, or, in Ma. Paz Mompart´s quoted words “Nursing as poetry, is a weapon charged with the future”.
Keywords:
history; society; nursing; Spanish Civil War; professional activityinstitutionalisation of nursing in Spain
Versión en Español
Título:
Analizando el pasado de la enfermería para proyectarnos hacia el futuro
