title: [Being a nurse today].
abstract: This article was presented as a conference in Soria as part of the celebration of International Nursing Day 2000. The topic of this conference was the contribution Florence Nightingale made to the definition of the real essence of the nursing profession, and its evolution over the course of the century. The author included a discussion of these topics: What do nurses want? What do business managers want? What does society want and need? Finally, the author concluded that nursing is a lively profession which has tremendous desires to improve itself.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Valladolid.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Tomás Pérez
mesh_terms: D009729:Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D009742:Nursing Theory