Social Responsibility of Healthcare Organizations and the Role of the Nurse

Introduction

Delving into the concept of corporate social responsibility currently involves a step required by the regulatory and holistic approaches of business ethics. It is true that the speech of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been addressed since the 1990s and has been emphasized by different disciplines, including business economics, business management and administration, sociology of labor relations, and communications and advertising, to mention some of the most active in the subject (Gonzalez, 2007). But all of them end up resorting to business ethics to resolve questions relating to the nature of the business, the reasons to manage with responsibility guidelines about what their company should be and why it must adopt rigorous approaches of responsibility in their business relations and the main core of their business (core business) (Gonzalez, 2007).

Understanding nursing as a social practice means to surpass its technical-operational dimensions proceeding from the direct application of biotechnology-related knowledge and to consider it as one of the many practices of society, with which it shares the responsibility for health (Campos, 2007). The aim focus of the chapter is development through of concept corporate social responsibility in nursing education, therefore show the methodology of service-learning apply in an institution of higher education in nursing of Chile.