[Teaching and nursing practices reorientation: Pro-Health implantation in Mossoró, Brazil].

The Nursing School of Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte through the Programa Nacional de Reorientação da Formação Profissional em Saúde (Pro-Health) seeks to articulate teaching and service, contributing to the development of the concept of nursing education in Mossoró, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. This research aims to investigate the implementation of Pro Health in the Basic Units of Health in Mossoró understanding the position of nursing workers in the teaching-service articulation. Interviews were conducted with six nurses who work in health clinics that coolaborated to this project. The results demonstrated that these workers lacked knowledge about the Pro-Health. This lack of knowledge associated with difficulties in integrating teaching and service did not contribute to the reflection about and reorientation of nursing practice. It is necessary to rethink the knowledge and nursing practices for a gradual change, contributing to improve health care quality, based on the norms established by the Unified Health System in Brazil.