[The social-political-environmental and health reality of families belonging to a vulnerable community].

The scope of this paper is to ascertain the perception of community leadership, health professionals and users regarding citizenship status and the enhancement of the healthcare conditions of families belonging to a vulnerable community. This is an exploratory study of a qualitative nature, guided by theory based on data. Data were collected between July and December 2009, by means of interviews with four community health leaders, a team of eight family health team professionals and twelve health users.

[Spirituality workshops: alternative care for the comprehensive treatment of drug addicts].

This is an experience report regarding crack users following detoxification treatment, which aimed to achieve a comprehensive treatment of human beings through spirituality workshops. Cultivated and created from the inspirations of the subjects themselves, the workshops are strategies capable of encouraging a revision of attitudes and behaviors, as well as to resume life based on new values and ideals. In abstract, the workshops aim to contribute towards broadening discussions on the theme, thus supporting the revision of nursing practice in regards to detoxification treatment, in addition to highlighting the need to conduct further studies in this field.

The nursing care system from a Luhmannian perspective.

Objective: to investigate the socially-relevant communication of the nursing system from the Luhmannian perspective.

Method: the investigation process was based in grounded theory. The data was collected between February and September 2011, through interviews carried out with nurses and student nurses at a university in the South of Brazil.

[The role of the nurse in the Brazilian Unified Heath System: from community health to the family health strategy].

The scope of this paper is to take a retrospective look at the professional role of the nurse in the Brazilian Unified Health System and understand the meaning of their social practice in this field of discussions and theoretical-practical meanings. The Grounded Theory was used as a methodological reference and interviews were the technique for data collection, conducted between May and December of 2007, with 35 health professionals and others. The codification and data analysis revealed that the Unified Health System and especially the Family Health Strategy, should be considered facilitating and stimulating strategies of the process of expansion and consolidation of nursing care as a social entrepreneurial practice, since they pave the way to a new approach in community intervention, through seeing the human being as a multi-dimensional and singular being, inserted in a real and concrete context.

[Systemic social practice of nurses in luhmann's perspective].

The objective was to understand the meaning of the social practice of nurses in Luhmann's perspective and allow for a discussion about the construction of a specific code for nursing; one that would go beyond the traditional health-disease code prevalent in the health system, whose relevant social communication is the disease. The Grounded Theory was the methodological framework. Data collection was performed by interviewing the 35 participants between May and December 2007.

[Promoting citizenship through nursing care].

This study is the result of the project: networks care and social entrepreneurship: the autonomy and social commitment of nurses. The purpose of this qualitative study is to comprehend the meaning of nursing care as a social enterprising practice. The Grounded Theory was used as a methodological reference and the interview, conducted with 35 participants as technique of data collection.