title: Nursing care in early childhood: contributions from intersubjective recognition.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to understand the elements composing intersubjective recognition that are relevant for nursing care in early childhood in favor of comprehensive child development.
  
  
  METHODS
  reflexive study based on the Honnethian concept of intersubjective recognition in the dimensions of affection, defense of rights, and social esteem.
  
  
  RESULTS
  nursing knowledge and practices, permeated by the intersubjective recognition in the mentioned dimensions, contribute to the dynamism of interpersonal relations, the production of co-responsibility, and shared construction of health care in early childhood, with benefits to comprehensive development.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  a successful coordination of the three intersubjective dimensions enables the expansion of the understanding on childhood and nursing care in child health in the field of human development promotion, covering affection, defense of rights, and social esteem in the established relationships with future positive individual and social possibilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maternal and Child Nursing and Public Health, Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Débora Falleiros de
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Mello
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Monika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wernet
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric and Maternal and Child Nursing Department, School of Nursing, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria de La Ó Ramallo
authors.initials: MÓ
authors.lastname: Veríssimo
authors.affiliation: Nursing Department, Medical School of Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Vera Lúcia Pamplona
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Tonete
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D000067576:Child Health / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D000078329:Workforce