Abstract

IRIGIBEL-URIZ, Xabier. Critical revision of one interpretation of the thought of Virginia Henderson: epistemological approach to the book of Luis, Fernandez and Navarro. Index Enferm [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.57, pp.55-59. ISSN 1699-5988.

The theoretical construction as it relates to nursing, presents itself as the way where all disciplinary transformations happen. Within the context of this particular way, the article contributes to the debate regarding the suitability or not of Virginia Henderson’s theory, as well as its interpretation. For this purpose, using the Historicism methodology, an epistemological approach is used towards "From theory to practice, Virginia Henderson’s approach in the XXI century", book written by three nurses, teachers at the University of Barcelona. The conclusions this article presents, offer a paradigm, a struggle, where the ideology which impregnates the authors, make difficult the conception of innovative metaparadigms in nursing.

Keywords : Theoretical construction of nursing; Virginia Henderson theory; Historicism methodology; Metaparadigms in nursing.