[Education of nurses under the social enterprising view]

The purpose of this qualitative study is to discuss the education of nurses under the social enterprising view. The Grounded Theory was used as a methodological reference and interviews to collect data. The sample was composed of 35 subjects that were interviewed in different states of Brazil, which were distributed in different sample groups. Among the interviewed, there were: 20 nurses, 4 doctors, 1 dentist, 1 nutritionist, 1 pharmacist, 2 psychologists, 1 theologian, 2 teachers, 1 administrative manager and 2 young participants of the social project. Data codification led to the category: Incrementing the professional education of the nurse which will be discussed under the social enterprising view. To consider the social enterprising education of nursing, recognized as a new paradigm of social intervention, capable of potentiating the social actions through the interactive nets, it means to carry out new possibilities, for the creativity and innovation, without getting unconsidered the emerging social contradictions and without the pretension of arriving at definitive syntheses.