[Nakedness of the patient from the perspective of students of fundamental nursing]. / Nudez do paciente sob a óptica de estudantes da área de Enfermagem Fundamental.

The study aimed to analyze the speech of students, their view of the denudation of the body to handle. It was a descriptive qualitative research, whose subjects were 21 students from three courses of 3 to 5 semesters. The information was produced by transcribing the twenty-one semi-structured interviews and analyzed on the basis of Foucault's thought.The themes were: Care of the naked body implies observance of bioethical principle of autonomy as the school's reproductive power relationship in the act of stripping, naked Coping with the other requires care, Care of the naked body "moves" with their sexuality; Power relations with the naked body. It was possible to understand the exercise of power by students at the time of stripping, as response to insecurity arising from inadequate school preparation.

[The nurse and patient's nudity]. / A enfermeira e a nudez do paciente.

This is a qualitative study about the relationship among nurses of a university hospital and their patients when they need to undress those patients to take care. The purpose was to analyze speech of seven nurses in this situation. The information was taken by transcribing the semi-structured interviews which were analyzed according Michel Foucault's thought. The results demonstrated that the relationship among nurses and patients at the time when nudity is needed to perform nursing care is full of power, to which the nurses don't feel always prepared. Also the nurses don't think that, acting as they act, they exert power over the patients. It is suggested to Nursing schools to perform seminars about the care with the naked body.