Train critical and reflective professional with technical-scientific, ethical-political, social and educational competence, committed to social practice, able to identify the individual and collective needs of the population and its determinants, to intervene in the health-disease process, ensuring quality of nursing care at all levels of health care.

The Nursing course Bachelor's Degree at UFF Campus Rio das Ostras was created in 2008 and aims to train general nurses with the skills to: recognize, reflect and intervene in the individual and collective health-disease process, through care, management and , teaching, research and extension, in accordance with public health and education policies, respecting ethical principles and professional legislation.