[The profile of nursing teachers in undergraduate courses in greater São Paulo]

This paper searches to identify some aspects of the profile of the undergraduate nursing faculty members and to detect the differences and similarities among the group of teachers of public and private schools. A sample of 120 faculty members of five schools was studied in August of 1990 using a questionnaire. The data was analysed according to the following categories: demographic data, social economical status, university stand, professional development and perspectives. The results showed that there are more similarities than differences within this faculty members, once they belong to the an homogeneous social, economical and cultural class with a few exceptions.