This article seeks to present and discuss the concepts nursing teachers have about work, education and health. To this end, we interviewed seven nursing teachers who work at a higher education institution in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The reports that were obtained pointed to the double side of the work, related, concurrently, with satisfaction and distress, identified, respectively, by creativity/autonomy and obligation/insecurity. The influence neoliberal policies have on employment and in the education and health areas was also noticed. Issues related to education focused on discussing the collective construction of knowledge and civic education. Regarding health, meanwhile, the perceptions of the educators who were interviewed involved concepts of promoting health and its determining factors. The interfaces among work, education and health were perceived in different ways, calling attention to the need for multiple changes in these three areas in order for it to be possible to achieve quality in these relations.
work; education; nursing