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OBJECTIVE to report the experience of the development of nursing knowledge from nursing theories and points of contact with the nurse's praxis. METHOD case report on the reflections on contents addressed in the discipline offered in the Graduate Program in Nursing in a federal public university. The students presented seminars approaching the main nursing theories, generating extensive discussion and correlating them with the nurse's practice. Review and reflection on the contents addressed. RESULT two themes were defined: the training of nursing undergraduate students and the development of knowledge in relation to the concepts of nursing theories; and care models and nurses' critical reasoning about the applicability of nursing theories. FINAL CONSIDERATION the reflections produced permeated the development and acquisition of knowledge and of representative meanings of healthcare practice from the assumptions and constructs of the theories.