The aim of this paper is to develop a Philosophical background about comprehensive nursing care based in Dilthey´s hermeneutical comprehensive philosophy and Heidegger´s phenomenology. From both perspectives, we propose some characteristics and attributes of what can be named as comprehensive nursing care. We discover its nature as a relational process that understands the experience lived by the client through dialogue that permits both nurses' and users' participation in the process. What nurses understand are the meanings that clients attribute to their lived health experiences. The current experience evokes, contains, and constructs these meanings that are found to be hidden in one's consciousness. It is through the care relationship that the nurse helps the user to express them. Comprehensive nursing care makes this process dynamic and stimulates the mobilization of the subject from whatever paralysis that provokes said unfavorable health condition to the actions that open new health possibilities.
Nursing philosophy; Holistic nursing; Nursing care; Philosophy - Trends. Methods