Management of nursing care from an epistemological reflection

Abstract

Care Management is based on universal values and knowledge that emerge from other sciences and from the discipline and science of Nursing itself, supported by strategic processes that seek quality, continuity, integrality of care and welfare of people. Objective. Through epistemological analysis of the concept of Nursing Care Management, it is intended to understand its origin, how it is articulated with the discipline and science of Nursing, difficulties in its application and pending challenges within the discipline and profession. The theoretical-practical conflict continues to be a constant concern for Nursing Science, a scenario that is intertwined with Care Management. There are great pending challenges so that this construct is recognized and valued not only by Nursing, but also by other disciplines to articulate itself with other sanitary professions and to objectively evidence the benefits in the action of taking care; crucial positioning that would allow it to be immersed in the public policy of health and to enter operationally to the public and private services; work that should emerge jointly from the union activity, academy, investigation and legislative action.