Abstract
The history of nursing was characterized by different periods from intuitive nursing, nursing activities associated with church orders and period of educational stage in nursing to the modern nursing concept. Considerations of nursing are necessarily associated with a wider discussion concerning philosophicalfoundations and biopsychosocial and and spiritual aspects of taking care of healthy and diseased humans.
The definition of nursing was not simple, since theorists of nursing had to také into account an enormous diversity of the nursing care, which involves taking care of healthy individuals, diseased persons as well as groups of persons. The nursing care in particular countries exerts considerable differences, since there are different conditions, under which it is implemented.
The development of nursing has not always been identical and there is a difference between nursing approaches employed at the beginning of the last century and at the time being. In nursing concepts, the description of the examination subject, delimitation of the role of nurses in the multidisciplinary healthcare team, level of the teaching curriculum and identification of nursing research fields are encountered to different extents.