title: [Expansion of undergraduate courses in nursing: dilemmas and contradictions facing the labor market].
abstract: We sought to analyze, from the perspective of professors and students, the reasons and consequences of the expansion of undergraduate courses in nursing, discussing the dilemmas and the contradictions confronting the labor market. It was a qualitative study with data obtained from focus groups, conducted in 18 undergraduate nursing courses in the state of Minas Gerais, during the period of February to October of 2011. The narratives were submitted to critical discourse analysis. The results indicated that the education of the nurse was permeated by insecurity as to the future integration into the labor market. The insecurity translates into dilemmas that referred to employability and the precariousness of the working conditions. In this context, employment in the family health strategy emerges as a mirage. One glimpses the need for a political agenda with the purpose of discussion about education, the labor market and the determinants of these processes.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo HorizonteMG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Kênia Lara
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo HorizonteMG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Roseni Rosângela
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: de Sena
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo HorizonteMG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria José Cabral
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Grillo
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo HorizonteMG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Elen Cristiane
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Gandra
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo HorizonteMG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marília Rezende
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: da Silveira
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019981:Health Care Sector; D009729:Nursing; D000078329:Workforce