title: Primary care nurses' approach to cases of violence against children.
abstract: In Primary Care, the field of nursing comes face-to-face with the complexity of violence, leading these professionals to constantly re-evaluate their habitus.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to analyze how cases of violence against children and adolescents are approached by primary care nurses, identifying limits and possibilities for dealing with these cases.
  
  
  METHODS
  a qualitative study, undertaken in 2011, through semi-structured interviews with 8 out of 48 nurses in the Family Health teams in the city of Uberaba in the state of Minas Gerais, the analysis of which followed the interpretation of meanings, based in dialectical hermeneutics.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the following stand out: non-identification of violence as a problem for the nurses; denunciations and notifications as a role of the nurses; and the limits found in the face of violence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  it is determined that the habitus of nursing directed at health promotion and prevention of violence must be restructured, overcoming the biomedical paradigm and involving intersectorial and multidisciplinary actions.
authors: Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro, Brazil. as_aragao@hotmail.com
authors: Ailton de Souza
authors: Ade S
authors: Aragão
authors: Maria das Graças Carvalho
authors: Md
authors: Ferriani
authors: Telma Sanchez
authors: TS
authors: Vendruscollo
authors: Sinara de Lima
authors: Sde L
authors: Souza
authors: Romeu
authors: R
authors: Gomes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D057184:Practice Patterns, Nurses'; D059017:Primary Care Nursing; D014754:Violence