[Nursing education at the university in Brazil: three experiences]

The ways of forming the nursing professional are linked to the history and to the socio-political and economic context. The article discusses the academic training for nurses in Brazil in three different public universities : University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto ; Federal University of Goiás, Catalão and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte. It notes the challenges and their differences and similarities. The networks of health services, the universities and university training for nurses are too much different in Brazilian territory. A national law that regulates the training of nurses but the universities has some autonomy to apply these programs. How this structure the nurses formation in this three different universities that we'll compared ? Even with the resources and different histories, the programs of formation have the objectives the management of integral quality care in all health and social services in the country. The achievement of this project is conditioned in each university to the reality and the situation of the health care system and universities as well the work of the professor and nurses.