Reflections on the child being and on the nursing care in AIDS context

This article is the result of reflections on the study carried out for the completion of the Nursing School at the Federal University of Santa Maria-RS, Brazil. It relates to the Nursing Care on Health Education to the child being that lives with the HIV/AIDS and was developed at the Pediatric Infectious Disease Service of Santa Maria University Hospital-RS, Brazil. Trying to find subsidies in order to make a reflection on the child-being, one resorted to the Humanistic Nursing Theory by Paterson and Zderad that enlightened the followed way, and provided a reflection on the Nursing knowledge, its purpose and its direction in the care science.