The objective of the study was to determine the contribution of the Project of Executive Secretariat of the Interamerican Drug Control Commission of the Secretariat of Multidimensional Security of the Organization of American States with the Schools of Nursing through the analysis of the scientific evidence generated by nursing faculty in Latin America. The exploratory study analyzed 263 research prepared by participants, published in scientific journals, the thesis and the dissertations. 31,18% studies were from Brazil, 21,67% from Mexico and 9.89% from Peru. The School of Nursing from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León, Mexico; the School of Nursing of Ribeirao Preto, Brazil; and the Faculty of Nursing of the Peruvian University Cayetano Heredia, Peru had the highest scientific production on drugs. 191 studies had quantitative design, 62 qualitative design and 10 qualitative-quantitative designs. The findings indicated the Project had an important role in the development of scientific evidence on drugs developed by schools of nursing in America Latina.
Nursing; Drugs; Research