title: Nursing in Brazil a critical-holistic perspective.
abstract: Global and local insecurities influence the Brazilian health care system and the complexities of the healthcare workforce. Nursing in Brazil is shaped by socio-political and historical factors. This paper conceptualizes nursing as a social practice and uses Wright's (2000) "Critical-Holistic Paradigm for an Interdependent World" as a guide framework to analyze how nursing education and professional practice exist within the country's socio-economic and political reality while being constructed within the domains of science and technology.
authors.affiliation: Demand Reduction Section, Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission, CICAD, Multidimensional Security Secretariat, MSS, Organization of American States, OAS, USA. gwright@oas.org
authors.forename: Maria da Gloria M
authors.initials: Mda G
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Jaqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Da Silva
authors.forename: Maria Cecilia Puntel de
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.forename: Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Padilha
authors.forename: Helena M S Leal
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: David
authors.forename: Gelson Luiz de
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Albuquerque
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D018939:Holistic Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D038622:Internationality; D016294:Models, Nursing