Quantitative research, that had as objectives: to identify the expectations of the students of nursing on the violence of the everyday; to describe the apprehensions of the students of nursing on the violence in the nursing work. From the approval of the Committee of Ethics in Research of the Anna Nery School of Nursing of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (EEAN/UFRJ), the research was carried through with the participation of 52 students from the 3rd period of the Graduation in Nursing and Obstetricses Course of the EEAN/UFRJ. For the data collection a questionnaire was used with 14 opened questions about the professional expectations related to the meaning of the violence; to the violence in the everyday of the nursing student; and to the violence in the nursing work. In the results, 62.9% of the students had as meaning of the violence, the physical aggression; 57,7% had affirmed that the nursing is a profession of high risk; and the five expressions chosen for the students who better portray the violence in the work of the nurse had been: the lack of work conditions, the aggressive customer, work in dangerous places, low wages and sexual abuse.
Nursing; Violence; Education, higher