One of the advances in the Family Health Strategy (FHS) is the prescription of medication by nurses, which has brought the discussion together with the medical category. This study aimed at analysing nursse's perception about this act as well as its regulation. The study is of qualitative approach, having as subjects four Nurses who perform in FHS in Sobral, Ceará. A questionnaire and the technique of focus group were used to collect data. The totality of the sample works in the rural zone and that only two had specialization. Nurses reported they are unsatisfied and unsecure related to the act of prescribing medication since the municipal protocols did not correspond to local reality. A review of the current nursing protocol for the municipality is suggested, making it suitable to complaints in the community, but without abandoning the priority of the preventive and community model that nursing performs.
Nursing; Family Health Program; Drug Prescription; Work Process