Trabalho Submetido para Avaliação - 26/04/2012 23:32:13 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NURSING IN FRONT OF THE FIRST CONTACT WITH THE ACADEMY HEIANNE WEIDE DE FIGUEREDO ([email protected]) / ENFERMAGEM/ UNIFRA, SANTA MARIA - RS ORIENTADOR: GRASSELE DENARDINI FACIN DIEFENBACH ([email protected]) / ENFERMAGEM/ UNIFRA, SANTA MARIA - RS ANDRESSA ARRUDA DO NASCIMENTO ([email protected]) / ENFERMAGEM/ UNIFRA, SANTA MARIA - RS MARIANA ANTUNES JANK ([email protected]) / ENFERMAGEM/ UNIFRA, SANTA MARIA - RS CARLA KOWALSKI MARZARI ([email protected]) / ENFERMAGEM/ UNIFRA, SANTA MARIA - RS Palavras-Chave: Meaning, Nursing, Academy National curriculum guidelines for graduation courses of Nursing, from Education Ministry, guide higher education institutions, aiming to ensure a quality education. They bring also new concepts for the vocational training of nurses in a generalist and humanized view.(1) Nursing education seeks to train professionals to provide health care to human-patient-client, for the realization and improvement of technologies and procedures that promote health, prevent disease and injury recover; being impossible to cure or recovery, favoring a dignified death and with as little suffering as possible.(2) Nursing brings the essence of Humanized care since its inception; the academy learning emphasizes the importance of understanding a look, a gesture, a touch that are care manifestations. AIM: to reflect on the significance of Nursing in the perception of academic, front the first contact at graduation. METHODOLOGY: this is a qualitative study, based on literature in science journals, databases and books about the subject. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: during the training the students are encouraged to have full performance in the areas of education, seek understanding the origin and development of human health, ability to deal with their own feelings in order to be able to administer them forward to situations of hopelessness or weakness by part of patients as in personal experiences. Is in this context that nursing seeks to develop their own knowledge that characterize it as science, while maintaining an important articulation with other areas of knowledge.(3) The first academic contact with graduation generates feelings of doubt, fear and curiosities, face the universe of new knowledge that are coming: numerous concepts, routines and obligations of professional nursing. FINAL THOUGHTS: To be a nurse and exercise the nursing work one needs dedication and love for first choice, because at a first time all is very new, but soon he perceives that f care humanization in the area of health is the essence and point of consideration, respecting the individualities, which request comprehension of meaning of life, as well as the ability to perceive and understand himself and to the other, contributing to quality professional-patient relationship, making a difference in the practice of nursing. REFERÊNCIAS: OGG, Cristina; PAGANINI, Maria Cristina; EDUCATION REPORT: SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE ACADEMIC NURSING.; Nursing Newsletter; 02; 23 - 35; 2008. BAGGIO, Maria Aparecida; THE MEANING OF CARE PROFESSIONAL TEAM OF NURSING.; ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF NURSING; 08; 09 - 16; 2006. CIANCIARULLO, Iwanow Tamara; BASIC CARE FOR TOOLS; Sao Paulo; Atheneu; 2001.