This text points out the analytical content of the article "Curricular Guidelines and pedagogical projects", which opens the debate section at REBEn (Brazilian Review of Nursing). It criticizes its provisional character and the fact that it is not propositional. It provides comments from the authors regarding the design of guidelines and their context, giving opinions about their content when it comes to health professionals education. Throughtout their text, the authors express their agreement with the manner in which the National Curricular Guidelines have been built in Brazil, stressing the political context they are to be included in when being interpreted and inside which they are supposedly going to be implemented.
national curricular guidelines; nursing curricula; nursing education