Nursing education and the challenges for health promotion

This is a descriptive-exploratory study with qualitative approach whose objective was analyze the health promotion on nursing education. The subjects were teachers, students & professionals whom receive the students on the scenarios of learningship of two courses of graduation in Minas Gerais/Brazil. The results indicate the incorporation of health promotion as a referencing for nursing formation favored by school-service articulation as well as an important strategy. In the mean time, it needs major valorization as a condition to maintain the changes occurred in nursing formation. It concludes that is necessary strategic actions for change the sanitary and education practices involving the "good" practices of health promotion on overcoming the challenges to change the nursing education.