The research in nursing contributes for the profession strengthening and for the elaboration of specialized, specific and updated knowledge body, turning it to social relevance. It must be analyzed to ponder about knowledge in a way to make it more suitable. The goal was to analyze researches published in six nursing periodicals - Qualis International - from 1998 to 2005. 40 studies were found, mainly accomplished in the Southeastern Region, originated from tests and essays by teachers' authorship. The privileged set of themes was life experience and company of HIV/AIDS carriers. It was decided for the necessity of the researches scope expansion, in order to assist the area demands.
Knowledge; HIV/AIDS; Nursing
