The aim of this study was to synthesize the knowledge produced about nursing students' education process in national databases, considering the curricular proposal of competency-based guidance related to care for the aging. An integrative review was performed in LILACS and BDENF bases with the following descriptors: "geriatric nursing", "gerontological nursing" and "education." Content analysis was applied in the articles. Subsequently, word clouds were built. In the seventeen articles that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, the main topics discussed were elderly, aging, old age, gerontology and geriatrics, geriatric nursing, care for the elderly and academic education. The lack of studies that address the competencies to care for the aging in a more structured way in undergraduate nursing courses was, therefore, observes through this research. Articles generally address the curricula structures guided by the National Curriculum Guidelines for Nursing Courses, with the focus on knowledge transmission, usually following the traditional methodology.
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