The feeling of institutionalized passiveness the nurses reflect can turn into the detonator of an action that, when triggered, entails positive effects for everyone. In certain exemplifying circumstances the interviewees described, this passiveness constituted the core element to change a questionable habitus for the nursing team. The group’s neutrality permitted incursions in its behaviors, which enhanced the nurse managers actions in favor of rupture, evidenced in the disequilibrium of strengths between agents in the field.