| Summary: | This research was performed with 33 nurses from 11 Health Units in São Paulo. This article aimed at identifying the perceptions of the nurses about the acupuncture practice. Interview data was analyzed based on Bardin (2004) and distributed within four categories: perceptions on acupuncture (1), difficulties (2), facilities in the acupuncture practice (3) and ethical-legal dilemmas (4). The results evidenced: credibility on technique (1); limiting factors, such as work overbook, lack of material and human resources and health policy (2); facilitating factors, such as: highly qualifying courses and implementation of acupuncture services by a multi-professional team (3); and regarding the ethical-legal dilemmas, the opinion that not only physicians are entitled to exercise the acupuncture in the public health system.
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