The study discusses the obstetric nursing care provided at the Childbirth Center David Capistrano Filho. This reflection, based on the negotiation concept of the Cultural Care Theory and on the Health Education concept, searched for the reason why in this space, that was created for the development of actions under humanized model perspective, obstetric nurses ground their practices on health education principles. It was concluded that the health education is an instrument of cultural care and the nurses while using educational practices are also using the negotiation for caring, in a humanized perspective, with the woman who socially uses to deal with the conceptions of the technocratic model. Therefore, without invasions and impositions, nurses collaborate with the physiology of pregnancy and childbirth, because acting this way they avoid the culture shock. They restructure the cultural care in the obstetric field for changing the hospitalized woman's way to give birth.
Nursing care; Culture; Health education; Obstetric nursing; Woman's health