This study is about interaction of nursing on virtual environments and their importance for nursing care and learning this profession. Objectives: To propose a categorization for participating actions in messages produced by virtual identity of the nursing community; and to verify the distribution of the participating actions, to correlate with the process of interaction in a nursing virtual community. Methods: This is an exploratory study of quantitative approach, with descriptive statistics. Held inspectional reading email messages and through the nine categories were proposed for the participating actions. Results: Commentary, questioning and answer were prevalent categories. These actions were named "triad for conversation". We made the test of kappa, obtaining result in a moderate agreement that guided the discussion to two possible hypotheses for future studies. Conclusion: Believed that exist a possibility to take the participating actions as basics elements that indicate interaction and transaction in the systemic perspective applied in nursing. This comprehension contributes for the better characterization of ambient, individual and his connections on the virtual space in the internet.
Communication; Interpersonal relations; Internet; Nursing care
