This study is about the graduates’ perception of the teachers’ work on nursing specialization, and is part of a research completed in 2013, with 29 graduates. It is a qualitative study with two stages of data collection: a questionnaire with open and closedended questions and a semi-structured interview. Data analysis was performed by content analysis in thematic mode, identifying the both contextual and registration units to build analytical categories. The results reveal the importance of the professors’ pedagogical training to understand their role as learning mediators. There is still much to investigate about teaching training and practice in higher education, exploring trajectories, identifying gaps and proposing ways of training that will prepare them to meet the needs and interests of the twenty-first century students.
Teaching; Nursing education; Higher education