ABSTRACT
Objective:
To understand the perceptions of nursing students in terms of the care in Heidegger's perspective.
Methods:
This is a qualitative study of phenomenological approach, developed with 21 undergraduate students of the nursing course at the Federal University of Santa Catarina - Brazil who attended the course Fundamentals for Professional Care. Data were collected during class on care, through spontaneous written reports.
Results:
Care settings were built from the experiences of each academic denoting their way of life to the care and, when they shared their views they co-existed with the group, building an identity and revealing their way of being-with-the-other. Scholars realize that care is part of nursing worldliness which is the way of being a nurse.
Conclusion:
Care offers a universe of meanings in which human beings are involved in care situations and concerns with-the-other.
Keywords:
Nursing care; Nursing students; Nursing education