This research-action aimed to describe about to building and to implementing a programme for development of professional competence of nurses in service and identify their contributions in the cardiologic public hospital of São Paulo, in 2007 . From the situational diagnosis was composed groups of studies about Nursing Process, Audit, Indicators, Evaluation and Treatment of Feridas and Nursing Education that elaborate reports and the data were collected from these reports of groups. The competences that the group developed were the to know act and to mobilize resources; to communicate; to learn; to commit and be responsible and have strategic vision. The contributions involved the development of competences, to aggregate social and economic values, to contribute in teaching and research and scope of certain goals. This study showed to be possible to develop professional competences in service.
Continuing education in nursing; Professional competence; Education, nursing