[Social representations in nursing: commentaries on theses and dissertations]

The starting point of this work consists on a revision of thesis and dissertations developed by nurses aiming to check how the social representation was used as a theoretical referential on these researches. Through a systematic reading of these works some points were dettached, as thematic, main result as and reflections proposed in order to atain professional practice nursing. It was ascertained from the analysed work that this theoretical referential is used by nurses, and that some studies developed introduce significative results from these professionals.