Socio-historical study having as object nursing spokesmen's fight strategies in front of policies come from the Policies and Bases Law of the National Education /1996. Objectives: to analyze the ABEn's position in field of the nursing superior education; discuss the fight strategies undertaken by spokesmen of the nursing superior education in front of the LDB/96´s policies. Primary sources: oral depositions and written documents. Secondary sources: literatures about the thematic. Theoretical Reference: Pierre Bourdieu´s concepts. The fight strategies undertaken by the nursing agents occurred from the political-expansionist, political-juridical and politic - organizational policies, which concurred to the reconfiguration of the nursing superior education field´ s reconfiguration.
Nursing; Nursing history; Education, nursing