Study that aimed to understand how the process of training in the Masters of Nursing helped mobilizing scientific knowledge in terms of formal and political aspects, by graduates working in health services. Exploratory qualitative research, conducted at the state capital city of Mato Grosso, in 2012. The subjects were nine graduates, Masters in Nursing. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, analyzed by using the technique of thematic content analysis, and discussed through the theoretical framework of Institutional Analysis. It was showed that the Masters was a device of the Institution knowledge, strongly instituting, by mobilizing in the educational process, the political quality of knowledge. It was concluded that the master´s degree in nursing students who worked in health services, feel more prepared and ready to interfere and qualify their workspaces for the management of scientific, political and ethical knowledge; refined and deepened throughout the process of training in the Masters.
Nursing; Education, nursing, graduate; Nursing research; Knowledge