Authors: Daniel Soares Tavares, Dirce Stein Backes, Leris Salete Bonfanti Haeffner, Alexandre Antonio Naujorks.
This article aimed at discussing the phenomenon of internationalization and international cooperation in the context of the changes that are processed in the world scenario through nursing perspective. The theoretical discussions are based on documents published on the thematic, especially those of the Nursing, and based on achievements and challenges experienced, specifically, by students and professionals in the area, who have freely offered themselves to provide their testimony. In the process of internationalization, the Nursing has gradually assumed a more active, autonomous, interdependent and proactive intervention. Several studies, in Nursing, demonstrate achievements and challenges related to the growing number of undergraduate and graduate candidates participating in international exchange programs and partnerships. These recognize, in this process, the importance of the universal dissemination of knowledge produced by Brazilian nurses as indispensable to the internationalization of the Nursing know-ow, which arises from publications in Brazilian journals indexed or from publications of national authors in periodicals of broad disclosure. As much as the process of internationalization of higher education and internationally cooperation has been stimulated worldwide to respond in part to the needs of the global market, the personal and professional benefits are unquestionable, since they overcome any contrary intent. Therefore, it is concluded that, despite its incipient insertion, Nursing has been gaining an important national and international space, from academic exchanges, advices, research networks and international publications, in addition to the International Classification of Nursing practices, among others. It is recognized that several challenges still need to be overcome, especially those related to the domain of the language, which have hampered the most proactive insertion in the candidate countries, but, above all, the creation of research networks and the production/publication of joint knowledge.
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