Challenges and questions in nursing practice and discipline. The European Space of Higher Education Section: TEACHING TO LEARN AuthorsEpifanio Fernández Collado Position Director del Área y Departamento de Enfermería de la Universidad Europea de Madrid. Vicesecretario de la ANDE. Contact address Universidad Europea de Madrid. Urbanización El Bosque. C/ Tajo, s/n. 28070 Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid. Contact email: epifanio.fernandez@efm.cisa.uem.es Abstract The challenge posed to nurses by the European Convergence necessary encompasses several institutions involved both in the training and in the practice of nursing. It becomes necessary to give some thought on whether the education model in which we have been traditionally trained can continue to be useful in the teaching of future nursing generations. The question would be can the work undertaken by nurses be viewed from a different perspective? The structured knowledge of the discipline is developed on the basis of what is acquired during the pre and post-graduate training. The exercise of the nursing practice is influenced and conditioned by the type of knowledge that has been acquired and the way in which it was acquired. The positivist model has been regarded as the only means to generate further knowledge. At present several authors have suggested that such positivism does not constitute the absolute truth and there are other ways to generate such knowledge. Keywords: nursing discipline; nursing profession; nursing knowledgecomplexity Versión en Español Título: Retos e interrogantes en la disciplina y en la práctica Enfermera. El Espacio Europeo de Formación Superior