Abstract
The article discusses the training process educator nurses get in the hospital context from the perspective of permanent education in health, highlighting the experiences that constituted this process, the meanings of the training, and the changes that took place in the development of nursing care based on meaningful learning. This was an exploratory, descriptive qualitative study developed through focus groups with seven nurses working in the Continuing Education Program in Nursing at a university hospital in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 2010, the light of the assumptions set forth under the National Policy of Permanent Education in Health. The thematic analysis of the content made using the NVivo 8.0 software for organizing and categorizing data. The results showed that the nurses' participation in the program resulted in opening to several changes in their work process and in the established teaching-learning modeling, expanding training concepts and spaces with an emphasis on collective learning at work and on it, which impacts nursing care.
Keywords
nursing education; continuing education; health education; professional practice; learning