OBJECTIVE: Apprehending the perception of ex-students from a Nursing undergraduate course about their educational process in view of the demands they experience in daily professional routine, in order to support the pedagogic reformulation of the course. METHODS: This is a qualitative research, and the Case Study method was adopted. Thirty-two nurses were interviewed, all of them graduated in 2003, and Bardin's content analysis was used. RESULTS: The interview yielded five categories, from which it is observed that the educational program should reinforce the development of ethical-political competences; contextualizing itself according to public healthcare policies; promoting research linked to the healthcare demands of the community; considering interdisciplinary aspects in the distribution of contents and hour load, and reinforcing the development of specific competences, especially those related to nursing management. CONCLUSION: This study allowed for the identification of aspects of the educational process that interfere in the professional routine and deserve to be considered in the restructuration of Political-Pedagogical Processes.
Education in nursing; Nursing evaluation research; Professional formation
