title: [Nursing education and professional practice: what is the relationship?].
abstract: This paper focuses on the relation between nurse's education and professional practice, through the experiences of nurses that were graduated at the same School of Nursing and that were working in hospitals in Porto Alegre. The discussion of the aspects that are involved in the categories of analysis give elements for nursing education, emphasizing the fact that it is disconnected of the reality of the professional practice, which characterizes dissociation between theory and practice.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lima
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care; D009742:Nursing Theory