Review of literature, using the Thematic Analysis, with the aim of understanding the interactions in the environment of care from publications in four Brazilian nursing journals of international circulation, in the period 2000 to 2007. We performed a careful reading of the title, abstract and keywords of 2.548 articles, of which 331 were selected. Of those 331 articles, 78.6% were scientific research and 88% had doctors in the authorship. Five thematic units were recognized: attitudes of interaction; the interactive process and its purposes; the care mediated and extended by interactive process; interaction, impaired; interaction as a tool for management and constitution of the health system. The researchers acknowledge the complexity of these relationships as foundation of health care and nursing.
Nursing; Delivery of health care; Health facility environment
