The study examines the incorporation of the interdisciplinary approach in two nursing courses in Brazil that pursue UNI Projects. It is a descriptive, qualitative study, using historical dialectic materialism as its theoretical framework. Its purpose was to examine the changes that have taken place in the teaching of the nursing courses, with emphasis on interdisciplinarity. The primary data was gathered using interviews by focus groups, teachers and students of the courses and nurses in service. The secondary sources were obtained through an examination of curriculums and other documents available in these schools. It was found that the courses are using interdisciplinarity as a strategy to substitute the organization of the curriculum by subject. The teachers described the difficulties of working from this point of view, indicating biological training as one of the determinants of this difficulty. They concluded that the emphasis on interdisciplinarity and team work has demanded the adoption of active teaching methods and has contributed to the change to the nursing teaching model in the university investigated.
Teaching; Nursing; interdisciplinarity; professional practice