title: [Nursing in Germany: some reflections on its history and on the current process of professionalization].
abstract: In this article I outline some roots of the institutionalization of the assistance for illness in Germany and the arise of nursing as a profession. I describe characteristics of the German assistance model and situate nursing as a profession, specially its formation and conceptions of its practice. The opening of university courses and the introduction of concepts like holism enabled patients to take care of themselves opening new perspectives for German nursing and stimulating the creation of new ways for nursing in the world.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de Bremen-Alemanha.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Kleba
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D005858:Germany; D006676:History of Nursing; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000266:history; D006801:Humans; D017009:Professional Autonomy
vernacular_title: A enfermagem na alemanha: algumas reflexões sobre sua constituição histórica e o processo atual de profissionalização.