OBJECTIVE: To understand how the nursing professionals, in a unity of surgical admission of a University Hospital, give meaning to the visibility of caring for others and to the profession of nursing, in their relations space. METHODS: Is a qualitative and interpretative study. The data were collected by means of workshops with the participation of ten professionals of nursing; and the statements were subjected to the content analysis interpreted under the theoretical frame of the complex thought. RESULTS: Were found the following categories: the invisible and visible care of others in the working dimension; the invisible and visible care of others in the familiar dimension; and, the nursing invisibility in his professional category. The relations, interactions and human associations, in the organizational spaces, where the care and the professional practice are performed, remain visible and invisible in his interconnections and exchanges. CONCLUSION: The visibility of caring for others and of the nursing profession is processed in the interactions and exchanges that happen with the beings of relation in his multiple dimensions and in the organizational complexity.
Nursing team; Nursing care; Role of the nursing professional; Administration of patient care