title: [Approaching the family: presenting a new definition of family and care].
abstract: Identifying the need to comprehend how nurses 'move' to the family, with the intention of caring for them, the present study obtained twelve biographical narratives of pediatric nurses. The theoretical approach adopted was the Symbolic Interactionism and the methodological one was the Interpretative Interactionism. The analysis of the data allowed the reconstruction of a story which showed that through modifying the concept of caring and family is the process that approximate the pediatric nurses progressively to the family, to a being with them, reaching the freedom to act.
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário São Camilo, Universidade do Grande ABC. mwernet@ig.com.br
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wernet
authors.forename: Margareth
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Angelo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005195:Family Relations; D006801:Humans; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations
vernacular_title: Mobilizando-se para a família: dando um novo sentido à família e ao cuidar.