Education and academic training of nurses in healthcare is the cornerstone on which the discipline and the processes of professionalization in nursing holds. This research aimed to understand the meanings that are about healthcare in nursing education and how these meanings are articulated with academic and pedagogical processes in some institutions of higher education in the city of Cali, Colombia. A proposal to make visible the way it has appropriated the concept of care in our environment, but also an invitation to promote thought and careful reflection as central to nursing education. An ethical and aesthetic care proposal that compromises and address the multidimensionality of human beings and their relationship with self and others.