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The Faculty of Nursing of the UCAM has organized this act under the motto 'The art of caring throughout our history'.
Estrella Núñez, Vice Chancellor of Research of the University, participated in the inauguration;
Paloma Echevarría, dean of the Faculty, and Manuel Amezcua, director of the Chair Index of Research in Health Care of the Murcian institution and president of the Index Foundation, who has given the inaugural lecture 'Science and conscience: two itineraries in construction history of nursing knowledge. '
For Manuel Amezcua, nursing has been built throughout history from two clear itineraries: the conscience and science, "which correspond to two moments of history."
The Professor of the UCAM has indicated that the first one was activated in Spain in the sixteenth century, "when the country was the center of a great empire and as part of a counter-reformist program of attention to the needy, articulating in the form of religious congregations. "
At this stage, he points out, a hospital network is created that covers the whole empire, something that does not happen in the Lutheran zone, with a reform of nursing with modern hospitals, different forms of organization, etc.
The second itinerary is related to the disentailment and to the socialization of the scientific method to which nursing adheres.
"From that moment, the nurses are already lay and non-religious, they are trained in universities and the scientific method is instituted," said Amezcua, who also points out that all this has caused nursing to inherit these two traditions in our time : those that defend the humanist spirit and those that exercise from a more rationalist perspective.
The history of nursing through seals
Another of the lectures of the day has been focused on the nurse image through the Latin-American documents.
María Teresa Miralles, Honorary Professor of the University of Alcará de Henares and President of the María Teresa Miralles Foundation 'Study of Nursing' has highlighted the importance of nursing representation on postage stamps, "which express what the society understands a specific field of this ".
In this regard has ensured that in Spain there are 14 stamps that refer to nurses.
Source: UCAM
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