Abstract
Objective: To identify the challenges and difficulties faced by the teaching nurse for teaching in higher education. Methods: Descriptive qualitative field research developed with 12 nurses who taught theoretical classes in a teaching institution chosen for Nursing teaching for more than 40 years. The data collection took place between February and April 2018, respecting the ethical and legal principles of human research. Results: It was identified through the reports challenges related to the institution's infrastructure, alunato, the devaluation of education, technologies, workload and the teacher himself. Conclusion: In order to ensure quality education, it is important that all the challenges found in this study be solved through investments in infrastructure, programs to encourage the development of skills directed at young people from basic education, and mechanisms of teacher involvement with the institution of teaching and its actors.