Resumen

TORRES ESPERON, Julia Maricela  y  PEREZ SANCHEZ, América. Aspectos éticos-sociales en los diagnósticos de enfermería y su influencia para la profesión. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2002, vol.28, n.3. ISSN 0864-3466.

A retrospective and descriptive study was conducted to analyze how the ethic and social aspects are manifested in the nursing diagnoses and their influence on the development of the profession. It was observed in the historical background the concern for searching a proper conceptual framework for nursing as a profession and that its ethic and social repercussion is given by the fact that it allows to individualize care and to fulfill the principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. Therefore, the development of the profession with an ethic, holistic and humanistic view depends largely on the attention given, starting from the nursing diagnoses

Palabras clave : NURSING DIAGNOSIS; PRIMARY NURSING CARE; ETHICS, NURSING.