The objective of this paper is to construct and implement, through an academic nursing experience, a theoretical-practical nursing care method, capable of contributing to the nurse-patient bonding formation, based on the active and creative insertion in the reality of families in a vulnerable social situation. It is a qualitative study with characteristics of action-research, developed by students and teachers of the Nursing Course of a higher education institution, through the project “Adopting a Family”, which was systemized with theoretical-practical activities together with the community and based on one of the Theories of Nursing. The theoretical-practical model developed constitutes an important technology of nursing care, capable of creating the nurse-patient bond and promoting the exercise of citizenship and social protagonism through valorization and potentializing of the different knowledges.