This is about a quantitative and qualitative research about the bath in the bed, with the objectives to identify verbal expressions and to characterize not verbal expressions during the execution of the activity to bathe and of being bathed. The collection of data included the register of speechs, gestures and expressions during the Scene of Reflection, a dramatization of the bath in classroom, with the participation of 32 nurses and students of Postgraduation - masters. The results had indicated two nuclei of representations: the first one, "the Body that Touchs and Speaks"; and the second one, "the Body that Touchs and Quiet". The Multireferentiality, Subjectivity, Psychosociology and the conceptions of Nightingale, Figueiredo and Carvalho had been used as theoretical support. The results had evidenced difficulties of the nurses in relation to the touch and to the naked body, during the technician procedure, and also when they thought and they defended, in fact, the proper body and the touch as intermediate of emotions, subjectivity, aesthetic, sexuality and sensuality.
Nursing; Skin care; Touch; Technology
