Some reflections on the philosophy of Virginia Henderson

Abstract

Efforts to conceptualize nursing care are still carried out with relative disciplinary consensus, this becomes more evident during university nursing education based on a curriculum diversity of study plans and programs; However, factors of a biological and social nature coexist that keep the pedagogical model with the social context and the labor market disarticulated and consequently unsupported. This explains why and how students learn techniques and instrumental processes ahistorized and little referenced to a comprehensive vision of professional work, coupled with the weak empirical reference where the positivist hegemony of the model of care, does not accommodate other forms of explain the facts or phenomena in the context of health care to people, essence of the professional practice of other disciplines. Consequently, the social representations and concepts that should be unique about nursing care have different tendencies and nuances in the multiple models theoretically proposed for the practice of nursing in its various fields of application.