Crisis, work and nursing: an ethnographic narrative of the coronavirus pandemic in Primary Care in Spain.

Objective: to narrate the experience of facing a long economic and political crisis and the experience of the arrival process of the coronavirus pandemic in a Spanish healthcare center.

Methods: this is a descriptive qualitative study with ethnographic analysis, with data collection through interviews, participant observation and field diary records.

Results: the immersion in the context allowed us to identify two axes of domain: "The crisis, work in the community and the territory in Primary Care"; "The inevitability of being a nurse in facing a health crisis".

Social control and nursing performance in defense of life in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: to reflect on social control in health and the contributions that nursing can make to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: this is a theoretical reflection, elaborated from discussions based on literature and the experience of authors' performance in social control and in Primary Care. It is divided into two topics: the first, related to aspects of institutionalized social control; the second, related to the perspectives for nursing in this space.