[... And nursing in the 21st century?].
The failure of Descartes' system and the new world-wide context are aspects that point to a crises of current paradigms. This crises triggers the need of reconsidering philosophical and scientific models, as well as the trends guiding the professional practices and relationships. This study reflects about the tendencies that will lead the nursing practices in the twentieth-first century and the consequences of the care practice under new paradigms.
The research asked to what extent students enjoin scientific knowledge vis-a-vis other domains of knowledge in a discussion about Nature, given that science is unarguably relevant to the topic of Nature; and yet, Nature is a topic that most people do not explicitly associate with science? Moreover, the research asked what are the concepts that appear to have scope and force in the thinking on this topic? The answers from the research are stated in assertions that begin in this chapter. The four assertions discussed in Chapter 5 are assertions specifically related to science.