“The Ideal and Practice Concepts of ‘Professional Nursing Care’”

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to make a determination of the concept ‘professional nursing care’ and to demonstrate its specific features. Through an ontological and contextual determination, caritas emerges as the basic motive, as a prerequisite for ‘professional nursing care’, with its characteristics human love, charity, courage, and human being.Human dignity comes out as the ethos of caritas and as the ethos of professional nursing care, as the ethical basic view. If we exclude ‘human dignity’ from professional nursing care, professional nursing care ceases to be professional.