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OLIVE FERRER, Carmen. Humanistic professional care. Salus [online]. 2015, vol.19, n.3, pp.20-26. ISSN 1316-7138.

Care or cares are at the heart of the nursing function. However, due to their ordinariness, they are often not given the importance posed by some professional cares consistent with the historical and cultural moment we live in. The aim of this article is to argue the importance of humanistic professional care for the 21st century in the different scopes of care, both chronic or critical, in the different areas: community or institutional; in the different nursing functions or activity fields: training, support, management, investigation and policy; and using the different knowledge: personal, aesthetical, ethical, empirical and sociopolitical or emancipatory mode. To this end, with a scientific but at the same time clear and comprehensible language, relevant concepts of care in the 20th-21st centuries are developed. As a theoretical framework, a broad perspective of the origins of care throughout the history of mankind is described; the nursing paradigms since the 19th century; Morin’s knowledge for an education in the 21st century, to give concrete shape in the nursing knowledge according to Pepin.From this general and global perspective, we are in the paradigm of transformation, to make clear concepts and particularities of Watson, Mishel and Boykin/Schonhofer models, with the aim of giving value to their tenets, which gather the history of mankind and the assumed knowledge, which allow us to answer the questions and issues in the 21st century, and must be translated to the current professional care, in academic curricula and ongoing training, in investigation and management.

Palabras clave : Humanistic care; nursing knowledge; paradigm; models of care.

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