TY - SER TI - Los cuidados de enfermería SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 45 N2 - Is the object of nursing care a person or a diseased organ? Nursing staff and medical staff have suffered a mechanistic deviation, which, by separating them from the totalizing and human vision of the patient as a whole, by becoming exclusively interested in the organ, distracted them from the notion of health that is now claimed. This concept is a catalyst, today, for the reform not only of medical care but also of nursing care. This work is an invitation to reflect. But the facts you mention are common to all nursing experience; their conclusions and suggestions, therefore, will also be useful to all ER -