Education of nurses under the social enterprising view.

Abstract

This study is the result of an project: Networks care and social entrepreneurship. 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. Data codification led to the central theme: Viewing Nursing Care as a Social Enterprising Practice. This theme is complemented by the category, characterized as an action/strategy: Incrementing the professional education of the nurse, which will be discussed, in this article, under the social enterprising view. To consider the social enterprising education of nursing, it means to carry out new possibilities of social intervention, for the creativity and innovation, without  disconsidering the emerging social contradictions and without the pretension of arriving at definitive syntheses and absolute certainties.