Florence Nightingale and the formation of values in Nursing.

Abstract

Human values behave as self-control mechanisms conditioned to social requirements that manifest as codes, guides and laws, thus governing the behavior of the individual. In the Professional Nursing, values are principles that allow us to provide an ethical and humanized attention in the maintenance of human health, developed from the influence of paradigmatic personalities that, as Florence Nightingale, contributed in the formation of attitudes that sustain the nurse's practice as caregiver. Deepening this knowledge is the objective of this investigation. The analysis-synthesis method was applied, we organizing information to decompose the studied documents into their parts, selecting and referencing those related, finally reconstructing the parts that brought us closer to the knowledge of our reality.