Transformationen pflegerischen Handelns

Dr. Susanne Kreutzer lehrt Ethik, Wissenschaftstheorie und Geschichte der Pflege am Fachbereich Pflege und Gesundheit der Fachhochschule Münster und ist Adjunct Professor an der University of Ottawa, School of Nursing, Kanada.

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Remmers leitete die Abteilung Pflegewissenschaft an der Universität Osnabrück. Derzeit ist er Seniorprofessor im Institut für Gerontologie der Universität Heidelberg.

The current upheavals in healthcare have far-reaching consequences for the nursing professions and their clients. However, the extent to which the key aspect of nursing, namely the nurse-patient relationship, is currently changing, does not become apparent unless viewed from a long historical perspective. The authors of this volume discuss the transformation both in nursing practice and in the general conditions for health care from different disciplinary and methodological approaches. What are the consequences of transposing modern concepts of purposefulness and administrative logic onto the field of social relations and personal attention? The volume focuses on the fine structural changes made to care for the elderly, the sick and the distressed from the 19th to the 21st century. The contributions reveal, on balance, significant losses in the quality of personal care that urgently demand further consideration, and they endorse the need for a long-overdue debate on the elementary requirements of need-oriented care. This historical analysis of practical nursing relationships makes a valuable contribution to that end.