The current work is a qualitative and descriptive field research in order to investigate the conceptions of students from a technical course in nursing in the State of Rio de Janeiro on their expectations in relation to the subject "Psychology Applied to Nursing" and the subsidies offered by it for their professional activities. We interviewed ten students from a technical course in nursing in a city of Rio de Janeiro State, using a semi structured guide. The analysis of the content of the interviews indicated the emotional impact that the student experiences in the early period of training and the need to get from the discipline the easiest and the best way of dealing with the emotional difficulties encountered in hospital.
Psychology; nursing education; high school
