title: [Nursing: a special way of developing, being, thinking and doing].
abstract: The present essay tries to stimulate nurses and graduation and post-graduation students in obtaining knowledge more and more and being prouder and prouder of Nursing. It synthetically explains Nursing as a profession, discipline, science, art, technology and goes beyond science and arts. It considers Nursing as something that nurses bring up when caring for someone through professional knowledge and a proper way of being a nurse.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem da UFPR.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Lacerda
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004645:Empathy; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009736:Nursing Process; D011361:Professional Competence; D012586:Science; D013850:Thinking