[Humanistic knowledge and scientific research: necessities for nurses]

The way in which humanistic knowledge and scientific research form a binomial inseparable for nurses is pointed out in this article. Notwithstanding the strictness requested by care models, nurses haven't to be turned aside from the quality aspects of an holistic patient care. As the humanistic sciences lead to consider the patient needs as problems to be solved, there are just these problems that stimulate the research work for the purpose of providing the patient with a performance concerning him as a whole.