Situated Learning Theory and communities of practice: subsidies for the social rehabilitation of people with stomas^* * The article derives from the thesis entitled “Evaluation of the program of specialized care for people with a stoma in the Brazilian National Health System”, defended in 2022 in the Fundamental Nursing Program of the School of Nursing of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo.

The objective was to discuss situated learning trajectories for social rehabilitation in face-to-face and online Communities of Practice (CoP) for people with a stoma. A comprehensive narrative review was carried out with an open timeline, with a sample of 18 international articles. The interpretation culminated in the conceptual pillars of the healthcare CoP, starting from identities and trajectories towards central participation, legitimate peripherality and reification; educational transfer in face-to-face and online settings with artifacts; examples and dilemmas of implementing collaborative designs or arrangements for different types of illness and the urgency of an interprofessional evaluation of the trajectory; finally, knowing about the existence of ethical communities, subsidies were proposed for communities of practice targeted at people with a stoma in the Brazilian National Health System, aiming at social-care participation and rehabilitation.

Keywords
Ostomy; Enterostomal therapy; Healthcare learning system; Social learning; Rehabilitation