Sociology of nursing and sociology in nursing: An epistemological reflection on the professional training of nurses

Abstract

In the field of sociology of professions, the study of health occupations has occupied and occupies a central place, particularly oriented to the analysis of medicine, defined by many as a “dominant profession” due to the presence of certain structural features and the influence that it has long had in the training and recruitment of other health professionals; among them the nurses.

A deep sociological analysis about the development and evolution of nursing as a profession must necessarily include an epistemological reflection about the place that the biomedical paradigm has had for decades in the professional training of nurses, and a deep reflection about the changes introduced. -not so recently- in the curriculum, with the incorporation of the social perspective in the training of nursing professionals in Argentina.