Kontakt 2006, 8(1):9-17 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2006.003

Nursing as humanitarian scienceNursing

Jozef Novotný
Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra ošetřovatelství

Nursing is not only a considerably tedious occupation. It is also a stimulating and pleasurable role combining the mastery of special actions with willingness to help people and to work in their favour. Combination of expert knowledge and skill in practice with deep altruism manifested in taking kind care of humans is a typical feature of current nursing.
Particularly in the hectic present time of modern sophisticated technology, the nursing process is being extended and refined. Nursing, similarly as medicine, exert simultaneously features of science and art. Good nurse is a gift of God. She fulfils multiple functions and missions.
Nursing, similarly as many other fields of human knowledge and activity, resulted in its historical genesis into a scientific form, which is primarily characterized by the subject of investigation, scientific method, language, methods of acquiring knowledge and implementation of knowledge. Nursing falls into social sciences and is considered as a real and humanitarian science (in terms of its subject) and as an applied science (in terms of its target). The subject of the investigation is man as whole, which means that all the partial results of research should be understood and interpreted in terms of the whole, i. e. in the holistic manner. The general method is also accordingly adjusted, which should be appropriate with respect to an individual as a bio-psycho-social human being having his/her unique mental dimension. The development of the scientific-research bases of nursing became and unavoidable assumption for providing nursing care and education.
The scientific work is a driving force in the medical and nursing activity. The final criterion of the truth is the practice. The science drives the practice ahead and the practice offers invention for the scientific work. Theory is enriched by practice and vice versa. We should stress that the theory is blind without practice, but the practice is deaf without the theory. Ethics is a conditio sine qua non in the professional activity and thus also in the scientific work.

Keywords: nursing; science; research; empiric research; ethics; man

Published: May 26, 2006  Show citation

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