Different aproaches on nursing graduation conclusion dissertations at the Federal University of Paraná

Abstract

It is a retrospect of the graduation monographs elaborated by students of the nursing course at Federal University of Parana along the past eleven years. Such monographs can be found in the Library of Health Sciences. The study objectified the identification of areas and the kind of research undertaken by the graduates. 240 monographs were reviewed, among them 14.6% were developed in the women’s health field, 7.6% in the child’s health field, 9.7% in the adults’and elders’health field, 3.4% in Nursing Foundations, 5.5% in Nursing Management and Health, and 59.2% in Nursing Practice and Public Health. The kinds of study were 81.8% qualitative and 18.2% quantitative. Since 1993, training reports have been changed to research papers, keeping up with the course teachers’ efforts to qualify for master’s and doctorate’s degrees.