Wound care is a daily activity for the nurses. However, this care is limited to these professionals when theissue is their autonomy mainly in relation to activities with the patients with wounds. The purpose of thisstudy is to evaluate the Legislation of Brazilian Nursing on the Nurses autonomy in the wound care accordingto prevention and treatment. It is an exploratory descriptive research whose sources were the sites ofRegional Council of Nursing (CORENs) of the Brazilian Federation and the site of Federal Council of Nursing(COFEN) as well as texts dealing with this subject. Legislation shortage was observed concerning thenurses autonomy in the woundtreatment; once only 11 documents were compiled which are distributedamong six CORENs.