This study described the language used daily by nurses in unit of cardiac intensive therapy. It is about a descriptive qualitative approach that uses the ethnomethodology by encompassing the concepts of practice, indiciality and notion of member. With reference to data gathering, the participant observation and photography were carried out towards capturing the gesture image. The results refer to the use of scientific words, acronyms and abbreviations, silence, gestures, and words with distinct meanings. This language is utterly understood by the group members and is performed in a natural manner by the social actors. However, it is not the client domain to cause fake interpretations. In this light, this study proposes a reflection about the relevance of applying in our daily life a language understood not only by professionals, as well as by the client, in order to be regarded as a tool intended for the nursing care.
Nursing; Nursing Care; Language