Theoretical reflection, whose objective is to analyze nurses' ways of acting of in intensive care, in the reference framework of the care style notion. The construction of the study was based on critic readings and analysis of publications in electronic databases about style, linked to the health field and nursing care. Care styles are the different lines of action nurses follow in specific care settings, with individual and collective influences. Therefore, nurses' ways of action, highlighted by a greater or lesser expression of objectivity/subjectivity, need to be discussed within the meaning assigned to customer care practices in intensive care. In conclusion, the analysis of nurses' performance in this scenario should include the subject as a social actor in the elaboration process of ideas.
Nursing; Intensive Care Units; Biomedical technology; Nursing cares