PubMed · 6996007
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K Serafin. 1980. [Reminiscences].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6996007/
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Notions of the 'postmodern' pervade various fields of study, but have rarely been applied to the practice and theory of nursing. This paper uses some conceptions of the 'postmodern' to remedy this. Though there are many contested usages of the term, here 'postmodern' will be used broadly in a periodical sense to trace changes in society and culture from the 'modernism' of the 18th and 19th centuries to current concerns about 'postmodernism'. How these changes have been reflected in nursing practice and nursing theory will be explored. The changing use of the term 'modern' to describe up-to-date practice will be addressed in the course of this. It is suggested that contextualizing nursing as a social/cultural activity in this way offers perspectives which will help us untangle the conflicting agendas and issues which form the fabric of the social world in which current nursing takes place, enabling us to act more effectively in promoting our own professional agendas.
Continuing a study regarding the development of nursing at the Santa Creu Hospital in Barcelona, the authors use the hospital history, Constitutions, edited in 1756, to show how nursing care was originally dispensed mostly by the Pares y Mares (Fathers and Mothers), lay persons who received this name to indicate the natural relationship established between the sick and themselves. Despite the possible moral value they contributed, the quality of health care was probably not very high, and the various religious orders that were destined to fill the health care vacuum did not begin to appear until the end of the century.