This documentary research paper aims to identify the presence of bioethics, or Bioethical related themes, as subject matter in under graduation nursing courses of Brazilian Federal Universities. Adopting as inclusion criteria for the selection of the sample only the universities which provided online the Pedagogical Political Projects of the Nursing Courses. We identified in the collected results from 16 (27%) Federal Universities, that eight Universities have Bioethics as curriculum component or specific theme (50% of the total number) of, and that there is no Bioethics or bioethical related themes teaching, in the other eight universities. Seven of these Universities (43.75%), address the following issues: ethics, nursing law, nursing practice and deontology. And one university (6.25%) does not address the issue. It is concluded that the subject matter bioethics and/or bioethical related themes, are not present in all curricula of the Brazilian Federal Universities nursing courses identified in this study.
Bioethics; Ethics; Nursing teaching