[A decade of National Curriculum Guidelines for Graduation in Nursing: advances and challenges]

The Curriculum Guidelines of the Undergraduate Nursing are references to the strengthening of the changes in training of professionals critics and committed to health. Seeking to identify these changes, this study aimed to analyze the progress and challenges of a decade of these Guidelines. This is a documentary research, in which it was analyzed the Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education, the CNE / CES Resolution n º 03/2001, and the Brazilian intellectual production on the theme in the decade of 2001 to 2011. This production was sought in scientific journals, through the data bases BDENF, SciELO and LILACS. The analysis was anchored on the methodological framework of the dialectic which provided the study of the subject in its dynamism, contradictions and all of its inclusion in public policy. The results showed improvements in the strengthening of change in nursing education, in line with the policies of education and health.