Kontakt 2006, 8(2):212-223 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2006.037

Nursing at the intersection of millenium. Nursing as a science, nursing as an artNursing

Jozef Novotný1,*, Valérie Tóthová1, Miloš Velemínský2
1 Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra ošetřovatelství
2 Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra klinických oborů

Nursing, similarly as many other areas of the human knowledge and activity, led in its historical genesis to a scientific form, which is mainly characterized by the subject of investigation, scientific method, language, method of acquiring data and their implementation. Thus, nursing belongs to scientific disciplines, which is considered as a real and humanitarian science (from the standpoint of its subject) and applied science (from the standpoint of its target). The subject of the examination is man as whole, which means that all the partial results of the research are in their understanding and interpretation considered as whole, i. e. holistically. The whole method is also adjusted for this purpose, which should be appropriate just for an individual as a bio-psychosocial human being with his/her unique mental dimension. Development of the research and scientific basis of nursing became an unavoidable assumption for providing the nursing care.
Nursing is not only an extraordinarily demanding occupation. It is also a stimulating and pleasurable role, in which mastering of special works is combined with willingness to help the people and to bring them benefits from this work. Interconnection between special knowledge and practical skill with deep altruism manifested by kind taking care of man is a typical feature of contemporary nursing. In the present hectic times, characterized by modern sophisticated techniques, nursing extends and enhances quality of the nursing process. Nursing is combined with medicine; it is a science but also simultaneously an art. Good nurse is a God gift; she fulfils multiple functions and roles.
Scientific work is a motor of the activity of both medicine and nursing. The final criterion of the truth is practice. Science drives the practice forward and practice grants an invention for the scientific work. The theory and practice enrich each other. It is necessary to emphasize that theory is blind without practice and practice is deaf without theory. Ethics is conditio sine qua non in the nursing activity and thus also in the scientific work.

Keywords: Nursing; science; art; research; empiric research; ethics; man

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