Resumo Objetivo compreender o significado da gestão do cuidado de Enfermagem para a qualidade da assistência pré-natal na visão de enfermeiras da Atenção Primária à Saúde. Método pesquisa qualitativa desenvolvida com a Teoria Fundamentada nos Dados e o pensamento complexo de Edgar Morin. Realizaram-se observações participantes e entrevistas semiestruturadas individuais com 11 enfermeiras da atenção primária. Análise dos dados: codificação aberta, axial e seletiva/integração e organização pelo software NVIVO®. Resultados o fenômeno central “Promovendo a gestão do cuidado de Enfermagem na Atenção Primária à Saúde” evidenciou que a gestão do cuidado de Enfermagem realizada pelas enfermeiras contribui para promover a autonomia das gestantes, a qualidade dos cuidados, o protagonismo e o empoderamento maternos no processo de gestar, parir, nascer e amamentar, envolvendo a participação da família/rede de apoio nos cuidados. Considerações finais e implicações para a prática a gestão do cuidado realizada pelas enfermeiras busca acolher as singularidades das gestantes/famílias e promover o cuidado singular, multidimensional, contínuo, vigilante, sistematizado e integrado, valorizando a subjetividade e o protagonismo da mulher, pautado nos princípios da autonomia e empoderamento materno. Recomendam-se o dimensionamento de pessoal adequado, a realização das ações de saúde de forma integrada/em rede, a comunicação efetiva entre os diferentes níveis de atenção e a preparação intensificada para o parto fisiológico, o puerpério e a amamentação.

Objective: To promote a theoretical reflective analysis of what nursing has to learn and teach to global society in times of OVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Reflective theoretical essay aimed at contributing new knowledge and raising new questions, based on the assumptions of Edgar Morin’s complexity thinking, subsidized by readings of texts extracted from electronic databases, as well as speeches by health professionals available in open communication tools. Results: COVID-19 reiterates that the biological warfare of the current pandemic is not fought with nuclear or fire weapons, but with care in its multiple dimensions: physical, emotional, spiritual, family, social, political and economic. Final considerations: Nursing has to learn and teach global society that its main object of work, care, is related to the expansion of systemic interactions and associations and the capacity to strengthen the interlocution with complex reality.

Objectives: to identify the reasons for the prevalence of the technocratic model in obstetric care from the perspective of health professionals. Methods: Grounded Theory. Study approved by two Research Ethics Committees and conducted by theoretical sampling, from July 2015 to June 2017. Twenty-nine interviews were conducted with health professionals from two maternity hospitals in the Southern Region of Brazil. Data collection and analysis was performed alternately; and analysis by open, axial, and selective coding/integration. Results: the technocratic model still persists because the assistance is performed in a mechanized way, centered on the professionals. There is a lack of systematization of care, and under-dimensioning of the nursing staff. Final Considerations: obstetric nurses need to review their performance in obstetric centers, the internal organization, the dimensioning of nursing professionals, and become protagonists of care. Investment in academic training/updating the knowledge of midwifery professionals, based on scientific evidence and user-centered care is necessary.