title: [The power of values. A question of professionalism].
abstract: In order to include the term on which my thoughts shall turn, related to professionalism, I strive to find the words which project a specific sense to the concrete aspect of what I want to express integrating values inherently when I say profession. My point of reference is Stephen. Toulmin, an interesting English philosopher and disciple of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who in his last known publication develops his thoughts about rationality and coins the term reasonability, which he defines as the capacity to be sensitive to the thousands of ways the same situation can be presented and he points out its meaning with these words: "One hopes that the human values of reasonability are self-justified in rationality". Following this same line of thinking, I propose that the human values of professionalism be self-justified by the professionalism nurses have. Based on this reflection, I open for debate the concept of PROFESSIONALISM, hoping to arrive beyond the norms which can determine the future professional, since these shall always be limited by one's own personal experiences and by the review of our short bibliography on this issue.
authors.affiliation: Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Durán Escribano
mesh_terms: D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012945:Social Values