LA ENFERMERÍA Y LA INVESTIGACIÓN

Professional nurses dedicate a large part of their time work, to caring and managing care, which makes it difficult to think over some concepts on which their profession is based. This article is a call to remind the foundations of the nursing profession, their ethical and legal responsibilities and to execute their professional work consistent with these. This implies a permanent self-evaluation and the constant improvement of their care work, basing their procedures on scientific evidence. That is the reason why this article describes how research is the bedrock to the excellence of care, shows the fields where nursing research can be develop, the professional competencies that allow it and the relevance of the research group for the creation, development and execution of investigation.