[Challenges to nursing personnel and their education]

Challenges for developing nurses as persons and personalities during their education are being described in the article. The major thesis is that thorough understanding of the mission of nursing is the ground from which all educational goals derive their origin. In nursing education a reformed relationship between the teacher and the student is needed which facilitates balanced development of ethical, empirical, esthetic and personal knowledge of the student. In this way the future nurse may grow a thinker and an active risk-taking actor who bases her solutions on good knowledge base and moral reasoning. Understanding of the meaning of history, culture and international collaboration are also necessary in the development of versatile personalities.