The main objective of this research is to contribute to understandings about nursing practice during the period recognized as the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Through the analysis of emerging narratives in the nondirective interview, I aim to elucidate about what emotions emerge in discourse (LE BRETON, 2009), the socio-discursive interactions in which identities emerge and interact with each other (MOITA LOPES, 2001; 2006) and evidence of hegemonic currents in the action (FAIRCLOUGH, 2001a; 2001b). In order to support this investigation, I rely on the Evaluation System (MARTIN; ROSE, 2007) in dialogue with Systemic-Functional Linguistics (HALLIDAY; MATHIESSEN, 2014) to inaugurate a micro-situated analysis and on Contemporary Applied Linguistics (MOITA LOPES, 2006) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CHOULIARAKI; FAIRCLOUGH, 1999; VAN DJIK, 2005) to conjecture a macro analysis. Aligning myself with the concepts promulgated by qualitative research (DENZIN; LINCOLN, 2006), I analyze the suffering narratives of nurses and nursing technicians who have experienced the pandemic situation since its beginning. Thus, observing how they situate themselves and the others, position themselves axiologically before society and the hegemonic currents and the crossings of their experiences. Through the interviews, four blocks of analysis were structured: O Início da Pandemia, Politica(gem), A Linha de Frente and O Pós (?) Pandemia. Results suggest that these professionals bore a lumbering emotional and physical load required in the exercise of the profession at that time and evidence interference of hegemonic interests in the discursive and professional practices of these individuals.