As superações da Ciência de Enfermagem e os novos desafios

Abstract

If nursing in Brazil has achieved such respectable levels in knowledge production and dissemination, there is still a great challenge for Brazilian researchers and Nursing Science in terms of the visibility of the consumed knowledge, which is measured by the citation index. According to SCIMAGO (2)

Mobilização do conhecimento científico por egressos de um mestrado em enfermagem

“…Other graduates saw the realization of their Masters as an encouragement to fellow nurses of the practice which also acts to conduct the strictu sensu graduate studies: This fact is understood as a device, even if unintentional, important for nursing as a science, which performs practices evidenced and needs research as a tool for developing scientific knowledge that legitimizes and is the basis of care (7) .…”

“…These initial facts lead to reflection on which knowledge is, in fact, necessary to improve the realities involving the nursing care and recommended to the questioning of the social utility of Nursing knowledge in order to turn it into welfare of individuals, groups and communities (7) .…”