It was conduct a review of the literature regarding the clinical experience in nursing education. We sought to identify the scientific production of dissertations and theses that address this experience, basing the data collection on the dissertations and theses catalog produced by CEPEn, Brazilian Nursing Association, in the period of 2001 to 2006. Of a total of 132 abstracts related to this issue, 124 (94%) used nursing education as key word; 05 (4%), the key word clinical competence and 03 (2%), internship and residency. The results show that the scientific production in clinical experience, which is essential to clinical competence, is incipient, with a slight predominance of master's thesis which, in most cases, use qualitative methods, and have distinct distribution in the country.
Education; Nursing; Clinical Competence; Internship and Residency
