[The visibility of nurse as a profession: recognizing conquests and gaps]

This experience report aimed at discussing and reflecting about undergraduate classes, literature and discussions conducted in seminaries with nursing students, the conquests and the gaps that are reflected in the visibility of the nursing profession. The 'Job market in Nursing and new modalities of rendering services'. The students see the Nurse as a professional focused on care. The categories that emerged from the data referring to the nursing students' view just before graduating are: advances and conquests, professional satisfaction and gaps in the profession. It is important to develop the political competence with a broadened view of the nursing profession as a social compromise of citizenship in the conquest of living more healthy.