[Current problems of nursing I].

Doctors don't deal enough with the questions of nursing, in Hungary many of them don't know the current problems, the tendency of developing. It was too late and only the involved crisis called the international medical public opinion's attention to the importance of this question. The elements of activity, which are took for up-to-date at present, were already found at the historical periods of nursing, but these mostly sank into oblivion or came to nought in the stormy periods of history. This happened also in Europe, where was prosperity in the time of century's turn and great regression after the Second World War. The researches of international corporations connected with nursing tried to uncover the causes, make proposals for remending of the troubles so that nursing also can reach the level of medicine. The permanent staff came diluted because losses were retrieved with unskilled labours; countries concentrated on reconstruction of economy, public health was pushed into the background; later during the period of prosperity the development of medical technics made technical assistance from a lot of nurses, who became the doctor's assistant and not the patient's, whose personal necessities were slowly pushed into the background. Nurses massive career-leaving and other portents indicated the unfavourable tendency of changes, and a new conception was prepared on the basis of detailed analysis to solve this problem.