Indexación: Web of Science; ScieloThe direction of care delivery goes from the action to the being; a process built from
professional experience, which gains special characteristics when the service is delivered by
telephone. The goal of this research was to understand the interaction between professionals and users in a
remote care service; to do so, a research is presented, using Grounded Theory and Symbolic
Interactionism as theoretical references. Data were collected through eight interviews with professionals who
deliver care by telephone. The theoretical understanding permitted the creation of the theoretical
model of the Imaginative Construction of Care, which shows the interaction processes the professional
experiences when delivering care by telephone. In this model, individual and social facts are
added, showing the link between the concepts, with special emphasis on uncertainty, sensitivity and
professional responsibility, as essential components of this experience.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692012000400009&nrm=isohttp://ref.scielo.org/44chq