title: [Coming out of the closet. The difficult decision of taking on a new identity: from technical nursing assistant to nurse].
abstract: Essentially, this article is a personal reflection whose fundamental objective consists in shaping the happenings, realities and experiences arising from transcendental part in the history of Spanish nursing which many, like myself, undergo. Nonetheless, this article is not a nostalgic tale, an incursion into one's personal memories nor an organized set of anecdotes. This is a true, reasoned and docuented attempt to connect the past and the future to our present professional situation from a personal perspective, not without subjectivity yet loaded with common sense, necessary in the logical evidence of proofs which grant objectivity and foundations, since, as Rosa Maria Alberdi says it is not possible--although we ingenuously believe it so--to limit our expressions exclusively to the scientific or to the fictitious.
authors.affiliation: Profesor del Departamento de Salud Pública, Universidad de Alicante.
authors.forename: José Ramón
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Martínez Riera
mesh_terms: D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards* / Q000639:trends; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000523:psychology; D013030:Spain