The study aimed to grasp the record of the didactic-pedagogic coherence in nursing graduate courses with the National Curriculum Guidelines for Nursing in the Unified Public Health System (SUS - Sistema Unico de Saude) perspective, according to students perceptions. The exploratory/descriptive qualitative study took place in four nursing graduate programs in a northeastern city in Brazil. The subjects were students who, through interviews, have indicated that the relationship among the institutions that form the SUS takes place at the time of practices implementations, as well as in the teaching of the principles and guidelines from SUS, moreover, in the curricular activities and in the research and extension projects. Others have also mentioned not realizing such relationship in their academic process. The study results revealed the need of strengthen the nursing education process towards the proper health services system.
Education, Nursing; Curriculum; Unified Health System