Objective:

To reflect on nursing research in the light of Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology, specifically in the work “Being and Time”.

Content synthesis:

The premises of Heidegger’s phenomenology may be related to nursing, since both cover, fundamentally, the relation between persons in a given context. The idea that similar phenomena are experienced by individuals in unique ways demonstrates how Heidegger’s phenomenology can collaborate in the understanding of the other, object of nursing study.

Conclusion:

Martin Heidegger’s existential phenomenology is relevant for nursing research, because it affirms that there are no ready answers about a given phenomenon, but infinite possibilities of understanding the being, the others and the world. It allows the researcher to follow the experience of the other, always open to his/her own existence, also as a being of possibilities.

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