Abstract

STEIN-BACKES, Dirce et al. Significance of the Nurse's Social Practice with and through the Unified Brazilian Health Care System. Aquichan [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.4, pp.560-570. ISSN 1657-5997.  https://doi.org/10.5294/aqui.2014.14.4.10.

The purpose of this work is to facilitate a look into the professional role of nurses working with and through Brazil's Unified Health Care System, and to understand the significance of their social practice in this field of theoretical-practical discussions and meanings. The grounded theory was used as a methodological framework, and interviews were conducted to collect the data. A total of 35 health care professionals were interviewed between May and December 2007. The analysis of the data showed the Unified Health Care System can be considered a facilitating and stimulating strategy in the process to expand and consolidate nursing care as a social practice, inasmuch as it signals a new approach to social intervention based on valuing the person as a unique and multidimensional being immersed in a real and specific context.

Keywords : Nurse's role; nursing in community health; collective health; Unified Health Care System; Family Health Program.

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