From the view of the historical and dialectic materialism of the nurse work as a social practice insered in the Brasílian capitalistic mode of production of the eighties, these study, through the decomposition of the surgical room nursing work in his three essencial elements, search to point the necessary comprehension not only of these components but, mainly, for the agreement of his superstructiral relations through the Brazilian mode of production in sense of, with these reflective praxis, search a synthesis, within what 1 have (what the operating room nurse work is) and, what 1 want, synthesis which will alow a new practice.
Operating room nursing; Nurses, role