Internationalization of Nursing know-and-do

Abstract

for their prompt reply. Their answers supported our reflections, which we now share with nurses, emphasizing, in these interviews, the statements we consider priority for an editorial.Most interviewees stated that since nursing is inserted in a world that is becoming more and more interdependent, and following a tendency toward globalization, it has had a more active, interdependent, autonomous, and pro-active intervention regarding its knowledge dissemination. The idea of globalization implies an action of projecting from inside, which, in turn, implies an effective capacity to mobilize and implement national resources in international contexts and territories; that is, increase the reference area for nurses. Regarding nursing in Brazil, an additional impulse toward achieving internationalization should be assigned to the evaluation process in postgraduate programs, which implies this movement has an important role in those programs.The internationalization of nursing know-and-do provides a useful flow of knowledge and activities among countries. This contributes to sharing ideas and practices, and, thus, broadens the horizons in nursing, working as an open system, more capable of answering the profession's internal and external needs.Most interviewees consider the process of universal knowledge dissemination produced by the Brazilian nurses to be indispensible for the internationalization of nursing know-and-do, which basically originates from publications in Brazilian serials indexed in databases that allow international access or by publications by national authors in foreign serials also included in the data bases of broad dissemination.The difficulties to mobilize this process, as reported by the interviewees, include various aspects. These aspects range from the selection of themes linked to contemporary needs and integrated to the nursing profession to beyond its geographic boundaries, becoming more attractive for the editors of foreign serials, passing by studies with unquestionably rigorous methodological outlines, and surpassing the diagnoses stage, to the restriction in reading and writing in the English language. On the other hand, the participants reflect about the scarcity of centers that develop strategic categories to promote the internationalization of nursing know-and-do, as well as about the inexistence of mechanisms to share this information with colleagues.