Abstract Study related to the published scientific production about pain thematic held by nursing professors, assistants and nurse student in Brazil, in the period 1980 to 1999. There were pointed 96 publications, being 61 under abstract published in book of programs found in “ Anais de Congressos Brasileiros de Enfermagem”. 20 in chosen and indexed national periodic and 15 in dissertations and thesis. It was analyzed that scientific production about pain as a main thematic and the criteria’s evalution to […]