TOWARDS A CREATIVE AND REFLECTIVE NURSING PRACTICE

Abstract

This article is a theoretical exercise concerning the practice of nursing –intended as a specific social practice within the environment of health care practices. It discusses the significance of practices on their different levels, looking to comprehend Nursing practice as a specific form, identifying its constructive elements. This article argues in favor of a creative and reflective nursing practice, recognizing that such a practice is constructed within a theoretical-practical articulation, founded upon scientific knowledge; a specific social practice that is constituted by the relationship between diverse social actors. Our commitment to human and collective health and the preservation of life depends upon this relationship. It is a relationship historically determined –though also determining– through the process of production in health, inserted into a more ample relationship from the respective mode of society’s life production, which, on its own is a principal determinant of the process of human living.