Facing the importance of the communication in all nursing activities, in this paper the authors try to verify how has been occurring the teaching-learning process related to the communication subject during the undergraduate nursing course in the Nursing School at Federal University of Minas Gerais. The data were colected by intervewing professors aud students from the undergraduate course. The results showed that the basic problem in this process is not "what" to teach but "how" to teach the subject.
Communication teaching; Communication in nursing