This research aimed to understand the meaning of the experience of being scientific initiation scholarship student for nursing students from a university in the south of the country. Used as a methodological reference Grounded Theory. Data were collected through interviews with ten participants, ex-scholarship students and scholarship students. The phenomenon Viewing the scientific starting as a process of growth, change and learning in nursing graduate and continuity in academy, was formed from the categories: Recognizing the research group as a space for education and interpersonal relationships, Contrasting feelings about the activity of research, Enhancing the learning and knowledge, Showing the reflection of the scholarship in their professional and personal life and Relating to the scientific initiation scholarship with continuity of academic career. We recognize the importance and need to increase and recovery of activity in the training of students and researchers in nursing, in projects and productivity of research groups.
Nursing; Nursing research; Scientific and Technical Activities
