Author:

• Dirce Stein Backes - Backes, D.S. - Santa Maria - Centro Universitário Franciscano - <backesdirce@ufn.edu.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9447-1126

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Abstract:

This paper has the objective of taking a retrospective look at the professional role of the nurse in the Brazilian Single Health Unit and understand the meaning of their social practice in this field of discussions and theoretical-practical meanings. The Grounded Theory was used as methodological reference and interview was the technique for data collection, conducted between May and December of 2007, with 35 health professionals and others. The codification and data analysis demonstrated that the Single Health Unit, 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 entrepreneur practice, once they point out to a new approach of community intervention, through the development of the human being as a multi-dimensional and singular being, REPLACEed in its real and concrete context.
KEY WORDS: Nurse's Role; Community Health Nursing; Public Health; Single Health System; Family Health Program

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