The reflection aims to analyze the production of knowledge in Nursing from a doctoral thesis, identifying the elements from societal field and from the quadripolar space that compose it. Societal fields refer to the social demand as well as to axiological, doxological and epistemic fields. Quadripolar methodological space is compound by epistemological, theoretical, morphological and technical poles. In the chosen text, it were identified the elements that compound the theoretical-philosophical reference chosen for the analysis. These elements are articulated and complement themselves to ensure scientificity to the produced knowledge. Thus, this kind of analysis is a (device) strategy that adds to instrumentalization of researches for the production of knowledge.
Science; Knowledge; Methodology; Nursing