This is an evaluative study, with qualitative analysis, which has as an objective in evaluate the impact of the specialization in Assistant Projects of Nursing - ESPENSUL created in the working process of specialist nurses, in what relates to the competence of acting as an educator of health together as a team, clients and families in carrying out their functions. This course was develop in five Federal Institutions: UFSC, UFPR, UFSM, UFPL e FURG. An example of a propose selection shows that 10% of the total specialist, understand 32 people. The reference in health education as a process of dialogue, inclusive and problematical, stimulant the nurses of the changes in the educational process of their daily practice and, henceforth not only intentionally of the course and its professors, but, the compromise of all in this process of change.
Nursing; Permanent education; Evaluation studies; Distance education; Health Education