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This concerns a descriptive research developed in the period of 2005 and 2006 with a qualitative approach,which has the purpose to identify the determiners and conditionals for the implementation of nursing consultationdeveloped from discussions of a focal group on technological perspectives. The use of the Focal Group as a technique ofcollecting data and health evaluation background subsidized the research. Four group meetings were held along withnurses from several clinics of a university hospital in Curitiba./PR. The results pointed determiners and conditionalsrelated to dimensions of structure, process, and results for the implementation of a nursing consultation such as: inadequatephysical structure, lack of human resources, inadequate undergraduate education, time unavailability, service optimization,among others. Nursing consultation can be a valuable technology for the development of autonomy of a nurse and itfosters professional recognition, demanding constant evaluation by the nurse