title: [From experience to science: the evolution of nursing knowledge].
abstract: The aim of this paper is to show the evolution of the nursing knowledge. Some relations with the nursing history are proposed, in order to indicate the ways the people and ideas of today in nursing was influenced by the past. The authors make a correlation between the development of the nursing as profession and of the nurse as professional.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Angelo
authors.forename: H T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Forcella
authors.forename: I M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Fukuda
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000266:history; D006676:History of Nursing; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D017009:Professional Autonomy
vernacular_title: Do empirismo à ciência: a evolução do conhecimento de enfermagem.