The objectives of this essay are to argue the difficulties of implantation of a new model of assistance to low risk childbirth in the hospital structure and the systematization of a field of work to the obstetric nurse. From a new perspective of the care of the woman in labor, the authors make a reflection on the model of performance of this professional category, the possible positive results of this new assistance and of the conflict generated for the division of a space until then of exclusive domain of the medical category and the consequent shock of models of cares.
Obstetric nurse; Humanization; Care; Model of assistance; Childbirth