The objective of the present study was to analyze nursing practice in an Unit of Burnt Patients through declarations of nurses which were obtained in a prior study that utilized the technique of participating observation and cursive register. Authors concluded are not satisfied with their wages, period of work, the relationship between doctors and nurses and situations involving sufferance and agressive patients. However, the direct care appears to be a source of satisfaction, but nurses are divided between this kind of care and the problems they have to solve. The assistance planning was not adjusted to patients' needs, but to work routine.