The objetive of this approach is to verify the nurse's image perceived by primary students to nursing graduation course from two São Paulo Nursing Schools. The authors used the Osgood Semantic Differential modified and validated by LANE in Brazil. They used a questionary for better characterization of the perceived image. The data demonstrated that the students attributed different meanings to the words: male nurse and female nurse for one factor (Agility) only, and considered the professional image as positive with humanitarian and competence characterise