Cogitare Enfermagem (Dec 2000)
ESSAY ABOUT VALUES AND THE NURSING PROCESS
Abstract
Nursing is relatively a new profession and the educational nurse’s formation process keeps trying changes and alterations on its paradigm. This essay aims to analyse the theory of values and the Nursing Process, searching a parallel to become easy the nurse’s action. The proofreading was used. According to Minayo (1993), this is the method offers an articulation between the scientific knowledge and the empirical reality. Nursing Process is the tool which offers a diligence closer to the patient’s necessities; it is the basis that leads the nursing care, it’s important that the nurse observes the patient’s need during the period of hospitalization. Therefore, comes the necessity of a study about to the theory of values which will turn possible to understand the human being in its totality and to provide him a straight and complete nursing care.
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