title: [The possiblity of the emergency of communicative action in a refelction group of nurses].
abstract: This article discusses technical-instrumental action and strategic action in Nursing. The individual is self-centered, and maintains unilateral points of view. Acting is at a conventional level of morality. By analyzing nurses' reports of their practice, we investigated which rationale guides their action. We analyzed their expressions in Habermasian pragmatic-formal way, and we observed in the group the predominance of technical-instrumental and strategic acting. The possibility of communicative acting appears when self-centeredness and heteronomy are challenged, and, as a consequence, autonomy is enhanced.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. elena.muller@ufrgs.br
authors.forename: Elena Müller
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Korndörfer
authors.forename: Ida Haunss de Freitas
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Xavier
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009732:Nursing Care; D009742:Nursing Theory; D026684:Personal Autonomy