[National curriculum guidelines: perceptions of academics about their training in nursing]

The objective was to study the perceptions of nursing students about their education considering the National Curriculum Guidelines. This is an exploratory study with a qualitative approach, data were collected in March 2007 through semistructured interviews with ten senior students of the undergraduate course at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and all study participants signed an Informed Consent. The data were analyzed using content analysis. The results showed an understanding of the students for their training and their close relationship as study participants with higher education, national curriculum guidelines for nursing, teaching project of the course, the profile of the egress and the curriculum. We conclude with an emphasis on curriculum and pedagogical project of the course as relevant to proper training, integrated and harmonized with the National Curricular Guidelines for Nursing.