title: [The nursing team and the myth of group work].
abstract: This paper has two objectives: the first one is analyzing the individual behaviors indicated by non-verbal communication during shift exchanges; the second one is analyzing group behavior during shift exchanges based on the observation the videotaped scenes of a nursing staff during a shift exchange. A list of non-verbal communication signs was used to analyze individual behaviors. The concepts group were used to analyze group behaviors. The results showed that ineffective non-verbal signs prevailed over effective ones and inadequate non-verbal signs were more visible than the adequate ones. One may conclude that shift exchange was not a group activity.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo. pirolo@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Sueli Moreira
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Pirolo
authors.forename: Eliane Corrêa
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Chaves
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*