Qualitative research, with the objective to diagnose the formation of search into abilities in the Nursing Course at the Pará State University in 1999.The sample was 42 pupils and ten professors. For the collect of data, was use half structurized interview and the questionnaire whose answers had been submitted the analysis of contents, generating two thematic categories. The results had demonstration that the course does not propitiates the development of the investigative acquirement, because the pupils are not motivate, education is technicality and not arrange the investigative component; The works carried through for the pupils are unprovided of scientific severity; the majority of the professors presents unconsciously investigative scientific formation to apply exercise of teach-learning to possibility obtaiment. It is concluded that the investigative abilities construct in multiple ways, been necessary, in first place, to explore and to stimulate the taste for the enquire in the professors and pupils, making this activity proselytize them perpetual apprentices in investigative practices.
Research; Nursing; Motivation; Education