title: Nursing education: training evaluation by graduates, employers and teachers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to support the assessment and the necessary changes in the curriculum of an undergraduate degree in Nursing.
  
  
  METHODS
  it is a descriptive study developed in two stages as an action research. In the first stage, the speeches of 19 graduates and 15 employers were interviewed and analyzed; in the second stage, five teachers participated in the focus group. For processing the data, the content analysis was adopted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  based on the assessment of the actors, an action plan was created with suggestions regarding the curriculum flexibility, content resizing, continuing education, practice enhancement, active methodologies and autonomy of the student.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the participation of actors participants of the training process and performance of professional nurses in the evaluation of a curriculum pointed aspects to realignment and provided concrete benefits to improving the quality of undergraduate course curriculum, scenario of this study.
authors: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Promoção da Saúde, Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors: Maria Dyrce Dias
authors: MD
authors: Meira
authors: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors: Paulina
authors: P
authors: Kurcgant
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans