There is an increasing amount of Anglo-Saxon literature focusing on the need to advance nursing as a scientific discipline. The aim of this article is to illuminate some issues relevant to delimiting the domain and methodology of turning science with a special reference to the situation in Sweden. Against the background of nursing emerging as a profession and an academic discipline, the development of a nursing methodology, the relevance of the concept of care and trends in nursing research in Sweden is analysed. We suggest that advancing nursing as a science can only be enhanced by scholarly reflection on nursings' basic values, objectives, concepts and methods for nursing research.
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