The Theme refers to the history of nursing and its relationship with the professional development and the activity of investigating since the professional stage, in the nineteenth century, as well as the insertion of nursing at the university. The objective try to find out the History of Uruguayan Nursing situation as a line of investigation, which aspects encourage and promote it and what is the incidence in the nursing thinking development. The methodology it is a qualitative attempt, within an exploratory survey frame, aimed towards an intentional sample of nine nurses, members of the Nurses' College of Uruguay. Through sending, by e-mail, a guideline instrument, we obtained the responses of five nurses. The results were verified that the History of Nursing has scarce representation due to the absence in the degree and post-degree curriculum, as well as for the limited number of publications. Attached is valuable information that must be considered. The conclusions find out that the processed contents advises towards achieving a study of greater and deeper dimension.
Nursing; History; Research