Abstract

GOMEZ ALVAREZ, José Enrique. Nursing as an opening to interdisciplinarity. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.1, pp.191-204. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.3162.

This paper reexamines the concepts of interdisciplinary, complexity, care and nursing. The main target is to argue that the notion of nursing and care, as an essential property of this, always leads to the interdisciplinary approach. It is based on the holistic idea of care which is used as an opposite concept of specific nursing interventions, and which is related to the formal object of this: care. From these two elements, it is proposed and defended that the best term to describe its purpose is complex, considering Rolando Garcia's proposal of a complex system. To support nursing a complex whole, even when it's compared with theoretical elements (such as nursing elements) and the empirical evidence of the nursing practice. Finally, it is shown that ethics is an example of that complex reality of the caring profession. It concludes with a final reflection.

Keywords : Modal logic; nursing; care; epistemology of care; ontology of care.

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