The significance for critical care nurses of the "dying with dignity" legislation

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This study aims at presenting a literature review on the theme concerning organizational culture and at pointing out the subjacent assumptions to some theoretical and methodological conceptions. It focuses on health care and nursing studies.

[Ethnography: methodologic strategy used to conceptualize the cultural scenario in an intensive care center at a university hospital]

This work is a part of an ethnographic study accomplished in a university hospital ICC that had as objective to describe the intensive care workers' culture. It is presented cultural domains a taxonomies developed from the workers' narration The results here presented show that ethnography is a methodological strategy appropriate for a cultural background contexture from a viewpoint of those who experiment the everyday intensive care work.