This study had the purpose to understand academic participation and its relation with the professional life, according to the perception of nurses who experience it. The study was based on the precepts of qualitative research and the modality of the phenomenon, or Phenomenology. The subjects who participated in this study were seven egress nurses, interviewed with the guiding question How do you see the participation in academic life in relation to professional life? The following themes were registered, according to ideographic and nomothetic analyses: Educational Institution - producer of human resources, Healthcare Institution - receiver of human resources, and the relationship between the Educational Institution and the Healthcare Institution. It is understood that, in spite of being distinct modalities, academic participation and professional participation are inter-related, unveiling the undeniable relationship between the Educational Institution and the Healthcare Institution, with space for experiencing the participative process.
Nursing; Students, nursing; Citizen participation