[Occupational mobility: expression of this process in nursing]

This exploratory and descriptive study presents the family context socioeconomic and cultural advancements in addition to emphasizing the educational trajectory of a group of nurses whose the common characteristic is their previous formation in the Nursing area. Based in the original study which provided part of the data used for this study, the analytical approach was of either of quantitative and qualitative nature as a consequence of the duplicate focus used in these data treatment viewing their complementarity. The present study was intended to characterize the studied population emphasizing the socioeconomic and cultural aspects which were determinant to the peculiar habitus, and culminated with a socioeconomic classification carried out either previous and subsequently to graduation time in order to detect the social mobility phenomenon resulting from the occupational mobility. It was then concluded that the latter could be observed in more than half the studied population, mostly because of the double employment linkage than the professional advancement itself.