[Alternative/complementary treatments -- the view of nursing students]

The objective of this research was verify if Nursing students know Alternative Practices of Health (A.P.H.), if this knowledge is acquired during the graduation and if they use themselves or recommends this use. The bases were collected near to 96 students of the 4 years of graduation, that were shared out so that is the same as 30% of the students. We verified that 93.73% of the students know A.P.H., that this knowledge is not acquired during the graduation, but principally through the popular sense. Although the most of students (86.46%) recommend the use of A.P.H., principally because they believe in its effectiveness, only about the third part makes use of them.