The objective of the research is to investigate the construction of the teaching work of nurse-professors, its auto and hetero professional images, its abilities in the military context - the School of Health of the Navy of Brazil. It was used as referential theoretician Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman for the understanding of the universe of a military school and Pérez-Gómez for the understanding of the influence of the institutional context in the teaching work. For the understanding of the teaching work, that includes its abilities, it is lined up with the contributions of Maurice Tardif and Philippe Perrenoud, beyond those authors who study the binomial teaching-nursing. The research was carried through in the School of Health of the Navy of Brazil, for being the only military institution to form its assistant and technician of Nursing. The analysis was based on the comment of theoretical and practical lessons of 06 professors, as well as of half-structuralized interviews. The practical one investigated indicates close professional profiles, originated of the ideology of the priesthood, the vocation and the feminine one, the nobility of the teaching image, as well as the transformation of the witches in saints nurses. The interviewed speeches demonstrates the necessity of objectify to leave the sphere of caring for the sphere of professionalism and social recognition. Their speeches disclose the importance of knowing acquired them with the practical assistance and of classroom, connected to their personal values, that compose both professions, in a movement of feedback of the teaching-nursing.