Nursing as an epistemic project in the Nightingale System teaching/assistance/practice in health field and caring of ill/healthy people. Nurses' actions based on ethic, instructions, knowledge breaking away with pre-scientific view. Nursing discipline/scientific practice - structured in formal/material contents to the nursing care style. Critical-discursive approach/reflections about nursing care and the subjects' educational development leading to the constructive knowledge. Nursing as science-under-construction. Nursing care as concept/nurses' actions; epistemological inherence discussed according to the ideas/knowledge. Emphasis on the epistemological ground to the nursing principles. Concept of care without predicative reference or objectivity in the nurses' actions and the nursing staff's work is refused. Against the idea of "construction", the focus is on the subjects as partners in real practice, thinking/acting freely, taking decisions in problematic situations in assistance/research, and considering the clients' interests/needs in the study/work/plan. Epistemic aspects highlighted with implication in the nursing concepts and the nominated authors' ideas with consistence to the professional knowledge and coherence to the construction of Nursing - science and art.
Knowledge; Nursing care; Nursing