title: Demonstrating nursing care as a social practice.
abstract: This study aimed to understand the meaning of nursing care as a social practice based on interactions and associations with complex-systemic thinking. Grounded Theory was the methodological framework used and 35 health professionals distributed in different sample groups were interviewed through a semi-structured questionnaire. Simultaneous data codification and analysis permitted the identification of the central category: 'Evidencing nursing care as social practice'. Nursing care as a social practice based on complex-systemic thinking constitutes a new paradigm of intervention, capable of strengthening social actions through interactive and associative networks, and of acting in a proactive, innovating and participative manner.
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário Franciscano, UNIFRA, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil. backesdirce@ig.com.br
authors.forename: Dirce Stein
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Backes
authors.forename: Alacoque Lorenzini
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Erdmann
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Büscher
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009729:Nursing; D012944:Social Support