“…5 The prominence results from the increase in the autonomy derived from the daily routine of nurses. 6 On the contrary, the difficulties which nursing currently faces in primary care in Brazil nowadays range from the lack of professional training for the application of complex skills and changes in basic health care legislation, to the recent attempts of two different professional councils, one to prevent the practice of requesting examinations and prescription of medicines by nurses 7 , regardless of whether they are guided by basic care protocols, and another to place under their auspices two practices that take part of the nursing core activities, the care of wounds and burns. 8 At the same time, the Federal Nursing Council, aiming to qualify about 500 professionals over a four years period, supports research through professional masters, in partnership with the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel, aimed at the systematization of nursing care since 2016 9 , there are other professional councils investing against nursing actions, or with the intention of curbing the work and the advancing of the functions, or formally appropriating these through court judgments, designating those functions historically developed by the nurse.…”