It's a experience, at the Fundamental Nursing Laboratory, for the "Bath in the Bed" practice with 22 graduating from the UERJ nursing course, the object was to record the teaching strategy procedure, identify the students representations and feelings with her own bath and characterize, after the sensibility dynamic developed in "LIVING EXPERIENCES", her feelings. The explorer-qualitative research was implemented in 1997. Among the results there are the proper categories of the knowledge construction on the "Bath in the Bed": Incentive for body dirt cleaner; Incentive to pleasure - the relax body; Incentive to comfort - free body and Incentive to sensations - dynamic body. Conclusion, the students carry from their reality common sense knowledge for "dirt" and "clean" when representing their own body. When experiment to "touch" humors and perceives the client bad odors, even of symbolic way, their reactions are different and re-extend a cultural and scientific knowledge
Corporal hygiene; Sensibility dynamic; Nurse Knowledge