This work shows studies and reflections about the utilisation of groups in nursing assistance. As an aim sought to identify, through nurses perspective, aspects about their motivations to work with groups, their source of knowledge and relevant points of their experience with groups. The results demonstrates that nurses recognise the therapeutic value of groups in assistance and provide suitable conditions to its development. However, difficulties to handling groupal situations are limiting elements to develop this activity that reveal the human sentiment meander, indicating that nurse group co-ordinator needs, beyond theoretical establishment, to practice by their self-knowledge to provide an ambient and a interpersonal relationship able to obtain the real significance of this activity.
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