A paradigmatic glance on the nursing care: a to walk for the complex care

Abstract

The text addresses the Cartesian paradigms (modern) and the complexity paradigm (post-modern of Edgar Morin) aiming to deepen reflection on the theme and understanding to improve nursing. To this end, the authors discuss the model of care of methodical nursing in the Cartesian paradigm defining it as producer of an authoritarian, fragmented and linear care. They point the need to rethink that model because it restricts the autonomy of the people/patient moving in the direction of complex care that provides for customers/actors' participation in their health care planning.