Resumo (EN)
Objective – To cover self-medication among nursing graduates, associated to health problems. The study aimed at the evaluation of the incidence, knowledge of the medications and risk factors. Methods – It is a field search of quantitative character, performed with 89 nursing graduates from a private university in São Paulo, University Paulista (UNIP), who answered the questionnaire, characterizing the profile and practical the self-medication. Results– It has been found that this practice occurs with 65,17% of the nursing graduates, 43,82% indicate medicaments to others people, the prevalent drug of use is the analgesics, anti-inflammatory, antibiotics and antipyretics justifying its use by knowledge of the pathology involved, 52,81% they use under the guidance itself, 86,51% did not show any adverse reaction by the use of self-medication and 86,52% believe that self-medication can mask illnesses. Conclusion – This study it evidenced that the practical one of self-medication was elevated between the graduates, being necessary to approach the topic and explain to the graduates the risk factors and the need for a medical evaluation and prescription, based on the professional ethics code.