The objective of this integrative review is to better understand publications concerning nursing education in Brazil and Spain from 2000-2005. The data was collected from the CUIDEN and LILACS databases and analyzed using simple statistics. The articles were characterized according to central theme into the following six categories: teaching-learning process, faculty, course curriculum, evaluation, students, and the history of nursing education. They were also categorized according to their type of publication: research, experience report, reflection, editorial, and review. The results demonstrate that there are similarities between Brazilian and Spanish scientific production in this area. Neither country shows many articles which deal with the theme of formal pedagogical structures, with the majority of studies discovered constituting research articles. Concerning the nature of the study, the Brazilian studies were predominantly qualitative, while the majority of the Spanish studies were quantitative.
Nursing; Nursing education; Research in nursing
