title: [Nursing: idealism and realism. Perspectives of nursing students on the nursing profession].
abstract: Exploratory and descriptive study with the following objectives: to identify the nursing students' feelings related to the undergraduate course and their perception towards the nursing profession. After the four-year course, 57.4% of students perceived nursing in a positive way as a profession for the future, valued, recognised, compensating even with some limitations. However, 25% of students still perceived nursing as a mechanical, manual and sacrificed profession, with a limited scientific vision and with a gap between theory and practice and as a consequence a lower recognition by the society. If current trends are maintained, the nurse's value would be much greater in the next decades within the Brazilian society according to 61% of respondents.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Oguisso
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Seki
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: de Araujo
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Shibuya
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Speciale
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Trovó
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*