The current article comes from the Thesis, presented to the Nursing School Anna Nery, following the line of a Research in Education and Nursing, based on the Value Theory. The nursing possess a group of values which nourishes itself to elaborate a scale. Objective: understand the Ethical Value, in the speech of the nurse-professor, focused to the act of educating, that he/she transmits to the student and discuss it under the light of the assumptions of Max Scheler. The methodology is qualitative, focused in the phenomenological approach. The scenario has been three institutions of superior education in nursing, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The period of accomplishment was from August of 2007 to June of 2008. Results: Ethical value emerges in the speech of the nurse-professor in the act of educating as a foundation. Conclusion: by means of the speech the nurse presents Ethical value to the student, ratifying it as establishment for the assisting praxis of nursing.
Education; Nursing; Culture