Reflexive study with the purpose to discuss the Care Technologies of Obstetrical Nursing concept applied to the Woman Health in the perspective of Florence Nightingale’s Environmental Theory. The study allowed to identify and to discuss the following aspects: the nursing care for woman during the physiologic modifications of childbirth, the woman as protagonist of the labor and childbirth, the respect to the individuality, the privacy, the companion during the labor and childbirth, the homelike atmosphere, the sounds and the twilight, the nurse’s kind presence in the woman’s atmosphere, the liquid diet during the labor and childbir th, hygiene and comfort, the free movement during the labor and childbirth, the intersubjetivity in the relationship nurse-user, and, the rescue of the popular feminine knowledge. It was concluded that it is possible the appropriation of Nightingale’s theory concepts in order to sustain the Care Technologies when applied by the obstetric nursing.
Nursing; Woman’s Health; Technology; Nursing Theory