Starting from a constructive and critical analysis, this study besides aproaching the confrontation between the becoming professor and the reality of the great and small academic universe, discusses about ethics, esthetics and politics dimensions lived by the professors of the EEAN/UFRJ (Anna Nery School of Nursing/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) face the phenomenon of the death of two nursing professionals, caused by crime. It was adopted a theorical and methodological referential that was based in the conceptions of Denis and Weil. Concluding the study, it was considered that the basis for the optimization of the efectives and affectives paths in the seek of life with social justice, solidarity and political participation in the Nursing spaces, emerge, first of all, of the will and of the permanent efforts in the sense to valorized the aprovement of the human quality of the students and the nursing professionals, most of all, ethical, sthetical and spiritual values.
Ethics, nursing; Social values; Quality
