Elers MY, Gibert LMP, Ávila SM

Language: Spanish
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Page: 126-134
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The definition of nurse is closely related to the professional's function and, in consequence, the definition of nursing, too. That person is a professional dedicated to caring for the health of human beings. The history of professional nursing started with Nightingale: her postulates about the training of nurses in the instruction of scientific principles and practical experiences for the development of skills served as a universal model for the first nursing schools, which later became the training of nurses in the different specialties, such as the care for the geriatric patient. This positive aspect at the beginning in the training of nursing resources is reflected in the deferent definitions of nursing perceived in the different theories applied to nursing. Objective: Inquire into the evolution of the definition of nurse, considering the indispensable value in the care for the elderly patient. Methods: Documental contents analysis was carried out, which included different text books, original and review articles published from 1993 and 2015 with the following key words: nurse, geriatrics, nursing, in SciELO, Dialnet and Elsevier. We identified and reviewed 20 articles, out of which 11 were useful, as well as monographs from several journals, which permitted the logical-historical analysis of the category's evolution. Conclusions: Inquiries into the evolution of the definition of geriatric nurse permitted to operationally define this category, from the particularities of the geriatric nurse and the challenge before the geriatric and nursing services demand in correspondence with the meeting of the geriatric patient's needs.