[Another way to view the nursing profession: an experience in deconstruction]

Abstract

The authors present a personal process to search for new meanings and ways to approach the reality how nurses exercise their profession by means of exploring, reviewing and analyzing active nursing practice, care and teaching. All this investigation permitted the authors to construct a reflexive, inquisitive and critical view, leading to a position change regarding education and the concept we hold about people and about ourselves. This method deals with listening to theory by telling one's experiences.