title: [Nursing understood as a vocation and its relationship to nurses' attitudes towards work conditions].
abstract: This study aimed at reflecting about nursing as job by disconsidering the widely accepted conception that identifies it as an assistance activity for that conception might hinder actions towards coping with and changing work conditions. The study attempted to place in history the context in which the vocational/religious model was elaborated as well as to identify the manifestations of that conception in the discourse of Nursing freshmen and seniors, pointing out the fact that the teaching activity must be permeated by the conception of nursing/work.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo. arluiz@zaz.com.br
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001938:Brazil; D009729:Nursing; D011364:Professional Practice