[Daily ethics]

2nd and 3rd year students of a nursing school of Torino (north of Italy) were asked to collect critical incidents occurred during their practical training. The requirement of the critical incidents to be reported, was the identification of ethical-deontological implications for the student. The critical incidents were then written according to predefined criteria and discussed in the classroom during the ethics lesions. Nursing students collected 131 critical incidents, classified in 12 categories. Some general comments both on the method and on the overall scenario of the practice are presented.