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PROFESSION OF NURSING
The concept of the profession is generally associated with higher studies if the
text is taken into account.

According to the RAE comes from the Latin Professio-onis which means action
and effect of professing. According to Cortina and Conill, it is defined as a
cooperative social activity with the objective of providing a social good. Analyze
Smith's position and that these occupations become people who relate to
others.
It is also stated that the state has influence in the management of social order,
social activities organized in the profession through science and instruction.
This is a concept associated with the development of society and the fulfillment
of certain characteristics that are recognized as a profession and that are
described over the years.

According to the calendar for many years, it was not an occupation, but an
activity dedicated to the preservation of life and the preservation of species.
Then, with the arrival of Christianity, the supremacy of the woman is granted,
with the care of consecrated caretakers. In the middle ages work related to care
was considered a lower profession.

With the advancement of science and technology the field of medicine required
greater collaboration, which was highlighted at that time the concept of auxiliary
physician caregiver, this knowledge was transmitted by doctors mainly in areas
of pathology and various techniques. This style approached the religious and it
was about recovering the Christian image of care of yesteryear. This task
exercise in place emerges nursing with Florence Nightingale Who are the
foundations for the formal training of nurses, the place of hospitals, the
application of a strict system of discipline and moral quality. It is in this time
where many authors consider that nursing was born at the time along with
Florence

In this period important events occur that determine the social consideration of
nursing as a profession. In this point, the authors publish that nursing should be
analyzed as the profession and the fact of being pointed out by Ellis Hartley that
in 1997 they proposed 7 characteristics of the professions. With questions
about nursing has a set of own knowledge, reality is nursing.
Having theories and developing them gave rise to new theories and conceptual
models, such as Rey, Roy, Rogers, Orem and Newman among others
postulated, regarding the use of the scientific method. As for Sala, it is 1955. In
the following decade, Orlando proposes that it be considered an embryonic
form of the nursing process. 1966 Knowles explain the stages of the process
that later became the nursing school of the Catholic University of Colorado, and
I consider in the stages of nursing. high educational level