Nursing scientific status : paradigm, method and nature of its study subject

Abstract

The aim of the present document is to define the current situation of nursing scientific status, as well as to identify the main problems that are preventing it from consolidating in the general sciencie context. We go through the meaning and state of the terms paradigm, disciplinary body, theory, model, scientific method and nursing process, as well as their adequacy to the characteristics of science and to the nature of the nursing study subject.

Keywords

• Paradigma
• Teoría
• Método científico
• Proceso de enfermería
• Naturaleza del objeto de estudio enfermero