Abstract
Objective: To describe the knowledge of nursing students about nursing theories and the Nursing Process. Methods: Descriptive study with a qualitative approach, in a public higher education institution, with students from the sixth semester of the faculty of nursing, during a workshop on the Nursing Process, in a practice setting that is a state reference in women's and children's health, in November 2019. The online form used for data collection used the Free Word Association Technique. The terms evoked were nursing theories and nursing process. The terms cited were organized in spreadsheets and analyzed using the IRAMUTEQ® software. Results: The most cited terms for the Nursing Process were: data collection, nursing diagnosis, implementation, nursing history, planning, intervention and evaluation. And the most cited for Nursing Theories were: Self-care, Basic Human Needs, Transcultural and Environmentalist. Conclusion: Students have limited knowledge in relation to various nursing theories, and many are unaware of the stages of the Nursing Process.