[Research at the nursing undergraduate level: requirement for completion of the course]

This text presents guidelines for the implementation of an Undergraduate Final Year Project (UFYP) in the Nursing undergraduate program from Federal University Center of Alfenas--MG, presenting the hardships and the results of the first four years, using registers found in the proceedings of the Nursing Department and School and the authors' experience as coordinators of this process. There were reports considering some features as facilitators: incentive to multidisciplinary work, increased number of partnerships with professionals in the field; better use of IT resources, of the library and database; increased participation in research events. And, on the difficult side we found: the establishment of norms for the presentation of scientific papers, since at the time the School had no norms for that. We came to the conclusion that, in spite of the difficulties found, research might take place, and it constitutes a dynamic process where there is a learning to learn situation, either for students or for the faculty.