[Identifying your disciplinary field: the intuitive use of care theories]

Integrating nursing science (NS) into care practices is a path to consider for nurses. It enables them to rethink their clinical posture by observing and analyzing health-care situations in their entirety. In this way, nurses are guided by benchmarks that enable them to bring their therapeutic perspective to bear on care recipients. The aim of this article is to highlight and promote the mobilization of NS theories in practice. The art of nursing, supported by scientific reflection, is then meaningful and makes it possible to promote the autonomous role as an art of nursing derived from science. This vision of care will be approached through the practice of care centered on needs, comfort and symptoms, in order to re-illuminate it in the light of a selection of theories from the nursing discipline.