title: [Teaching nursing: 20 years at the university].
abstract: During the twenty years in which nursing has been taught as a university subject field, its teaching methods have undergone two stages: a first one about ten years long in which the change produced in the orientation toward nursing care originated a conceptual and methodological whirlwind advancing the profession in a way which had never before occurred; and a second stage in which the conceptual waters tend to subdue and the first doubts begin to appear about whether or not the profession is walking down the right path. This article proposes to serve as a reflection on the twenty year history of Nursing as a university subject field as well as to reflect on how we can construct the future on this base, not only in nursing studies themselves and the manner of teaching these studies, but in the profession as a whole. The author presented this as a conference at the Spanish Association of Nursing Teachers' XVIII "Working Days" Conference.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Puerto Rico y Cádiz.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: de la Torre Fernández-Trujillo
mesh_terms: D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009742:Nursing Theory; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013030:Spain