Abstract

The education curriculum is something that is constructed, and that does not make it indifferent to the contexts in which it is configured. Based on this premise, this paper aims to understand the historical background that has influenced the development of the Nursing Degree curriculum in Spain from the perspective of its social mission and equity. Nowadays, according to the bibliographic review carried out, the curriculum must be designed and developed according to the social realities that condition and influence it and that now demand care understood as a way of establishing more sustainable, respectful and equitable human relationships and links. However, initial Nursing Education in Spain is in a dilemma between technical rationality and caring attention. Some of the historical causes identified in the approximate review that gave rise to this dilemma are: medicalization as a priority training objective, exclusively hospital and technical training, focused on doing and not on knowledge, and the gender segregation of training programs.

Keywords:
higher education; nursing; equity; social mission; curriculum