title: Weaving meanings from the deliberative process of collegiate management in nursing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to understand the meanings of the collegiate deliberations attributed by its members on an undergraduate nursing course.
  
  
  METHODS
  Grounded Theory, interviews being held with 30 participants, making up 4 sample groups, between January and June 2012, in a public higher education institution.
  
  
  RESULTS
  5 categories emerged, indicating the phenomenon and weaving the paradigmatic model: Understanding the experience of the complex relationships and interactions in the deliberations of collegiate management in nursing: intertwining divergences, convergences, dialogs, collectivities and diversities. This deliberative process presents various meanings involving discussion, and divergent, convergent and complementary positions, through dialog, commitment and negotiation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the deliberations in the collegiate of nursing, intertwining dialogs, collectivities and diversities, mold the complex relational fabrics.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
authors.forename: Giovana Dorneles Callegaro
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Higashi
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil.
authors.forename: Alacoque Lorenzini
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Erdmann
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*