Study with qualitative approach objectifying to argue relative aspects to the project of implantation of the Systematization of the Assistance of Nursing - SAE in a public maternity, according to the view of the nursing students of the UFPI. The study was developed with 28 students, by written stories, grouped in three categories, whose analysis of the contents made possible the characterization of the signification units. The results showed that the SAE, although the initial resistance of the health professionals to its adoption, favored the learning of the nursing care and the assistance offered to the clientele, reflecting in the satisfaction of the students, of the users of the service and of the family. In the operating of the SAE was pointed difficulties related to the fulfilling of the adopted. The students valued the SAE as a necessary methodological instrument to the performance of the professional practice, as well had considered that the participation in the implantation of the project make possible the conditions to exercise it with autonomy in the professional life.
Women's Health; Nursing; Nursing Care