title: [20 years of nursing courses at the Federal University of Parana and the careers of its graduates].
abstract: This is a retrospective research with nurses graduated from the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR). A brief review of records such as meetings minutes, reports, and interviews documented the facts that built nursing from 1974 to 1994 at UFPR. The program graduated 467 nurses, to whom a questionnaire, containing open and closed questions, was sent. The sample was constituted of 62 graduates who answered the questionnaire. Qualitative and quantitative outcomes are presented in tables, providing support to curriculum changes and offering an alert to the need of conceptual clarification regarding teaching, practice and nursing research.
authors.affiliation: Grupo de Estudos sobre Metodologia da Assistência em Enfermagem (GEMA).
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Seraphim
authors.forename: V de A
authors.initials: Vde A
authors.lastname: Mazza
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Labronici
authors.forename: M Y
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Polonio
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mayer
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003479:Curriculum; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities / Q000266:history*