Care and culture: an interface in the nursing knowledge production

Abstract

Objective: characterizing the scientific production related to care, nursing and culture in Brazilian journals over the past 26 years. Method: this is an integrative literature review. Data collection occurred in January 2013, on the data basis of Latin American Literature and Caribbean Health Sciences, Scientific Electronic Library Online and International Literature on Health Sciences. Results: there has been an understanding that we are sociocultural beings, whose behavior is built individually, and as uninterrupted and unfinished process, since human relationships are permanently rebuilt. Conclusion: the cultural interpretation of events in the health field allows us to understand their meaning and to what they relate, so that enables more meaningful qualitative experience of nursing practice for both nurses, as for the subjects under their care.