The global socio-economic model conceived and utilized by humans through time, has led to significant benefits for humanity. However, it has led to devastating changes in the social and environmental areas, causing repercussions in the nursing/health systems. This paper aimed to reflect on the current socio-economic model and its implications for social and environmental changes, and to propose an ecosystemic approach as a strategy to building sustainable knowledge to nursing/health. As a result of this study it is concluded that due to the complexity of the economic effects produced by the socio-environmental changes on human health, it has become necessary to invest in innovative ways to build knowledge and promote sustainable solutions. The health care/nursing is embedded in a complex system of constantly-changing dynamic interrelations, whose solutions can be found anchored in innovative, creative, non-prescriptive and non-deterministic designs, but constructed so as to be able to attain the path of sustainability desired.
Nursing; Ecosystem; Knowledge; Science