Results: Forty-seven qualitative codes were identified and semantically divided into 7 categories: public perception
of nurses and the importance of knowledge; awareness at the personal and professional levels; adapting health
care skills and knowledge, and the number of health care professionals, to future needs; importance of new nursing
skills and knowledge, and of skill transfer; research as the source of new knowledge and development; assuming
responsibility for conducting evidence-based nursing; emphasizing cooperation and communication.