title: Violence against women: perceptions of nursing students' about the focus on the formation.
abstract: Get to know the nursing undergraduates perception, from a public university in southern Brazil, on the inclusion of the theme violence against women in the curriculum and about that thematic approach during graduation.
  
  
  
  Descriptive exploratory qualitative research, made with 18 students of Nursing Graduation in Federal de Santa Maria University. Semi-structured interview was made and its data was submitted to thematic analysis.
  
  
  
  From the undergraduates understanding, the theme integrates the curricular content in a punctual way and a reduced workload. There were found difficulties in the violence' identification and the actions to be developed. The participants suggest that the theme should be worked since the graduation' beginning, permeating the learning in collective health.
  
  
  
  The study shows the need to include violence as a transversal theme in curriculums in graduation courses of Nursing and Health.
authors.affiliation: Centro Universitário Franciscano, Brasil.
authors.forename: Bruna Dedavid
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: da Rocha
authors.affiliation: UFSM, Brasil.
authors.forename: Maria Celeste
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Landerdahl
authors.affiliation: UFSM, Brasil.
authors.forename: Laura Ferreira
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Cortes
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil.
authors.forename: Letícia Becker
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Vieira
authors.affiliation: UFSM.
authors.forename: Stela Maris de Mello
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Padoin
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D010465:Perception; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014754:Violence