This study defines different terminologies used in group work carried out by nurses and contextualises lines of approaches used in nurse's studies about group activities. If approaches the following terminologies: Operatives groups and their respective action areas, group of somatic patients, homogeneous interdisciplinary groups, interactive groups, focal groups and convergence groups. The objectives of the existing terminologies are focused on their objectives, where in reality all terminologies fit in the concept of operative groups as a classification of such. The following approaches related to those activities are described as follows: Health Education Groups and Technology and Strategy Groups. Among the ones cited above, the focus on the strategy groups, according to their authors, allows for a better group performance and its importance as a work tool for the professional nurse.
Education, Nursing; Terminology; Classification; Patient Education