ABSTRACT
Professional nursing care has undergone considerable theoretical and practical development in recent decades: The discourse's focus on a “holistic” view of the person and the relationship between the carer and the person in need has led to nursing theories and evidence-based diagnoses with partly similar and partly different nursing problems, goals, and measures. Up to now, nursing care services, teaching staff, and cost bearers seem to set their own standards of nursing, which include or exclude, for instance, prevention or psychological response options in regard to disease. Alan Gewirth's approach to moral rights can show which nursing goals and measures are owed and therefore must be guaranteed in any case. The controversial issues within professional nursing care and solidarity-financed cost bearers are analysed and discussed with regard to Gewirth's theory of goods.
