This qualitative study aims to analyze the use of Pichon-Rivière's operative group approach, as a possibility for creating a room for the exchange of experiences between students in the 8th term of the Undergraduate Course in Nursing at the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing, with a view to mitigating anxiety, facilitating the elaboration of daily experiences and integrating thoughts, feelings and actions. Seven group meetings were proposed on a weekly basis, using the operative group technique. Records were analyzed and an account was constructed about each meeting. Students reflected on their experiences in facing this moment of transition towards professional life, while lecturers questioned the experiences related to the teaching-learning process, reconsidering the limits of the traditional teaching model.
Nursing; Professional Practice; Teaching; Students; Nursing