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BACKGROUND: This study describes the route followed by nursing in Brazil, through the foundation of nursing organizations and the emergence of nursing leaders and pioneers. AIM: To present the origins of modern nursing in Brazil, identifying the main nurse-leaders and analysing their performance for the creation and consolidation of the nursing organizations. METHODS: It is a historical and social study with descriptive approach, to describe the process of Brazilian nursing professionalization and leadership through a literature review. RESULTS: The oldest nursing organization is the Brazilian Nursing Association that holds scientific and cultural activities. There are also nurses' unions and nursing specialty associations, such as the Brazilian Academy for the History of Nursing, and the Federal Nursing Council. The latter has compulsory membership for controlling nursing services according to the qualifications of the personnel. The very first school for nurses in the Nightingale system was created in São Paulo, 1894, at the Samaritan Hospital, and by the government in 1923, in Rio de Janeiro, for which American nurses, led by Ethel Parsons, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, were essential for the creation of the Anna Nery Nursing School, still in operation within a federal university. Some nurses pioneered these works such as Edith Fraenkel, Maria Rosa Pinheiro, Amalia Carvalho and others. CONCLUSION: The work done by nursing leaders has brought to the profession a better status and made it more recognized by the society.
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Escolas de Enfermagem/história , Sociedades de Enfermagem/história , Especialidades de Enfermagem/história , Brasil , História da Enfermagem , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , História do Século XXI , HumanosRESUMO
This article outlines the contribution of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn) in the study, discussion and approval of laws and regulations that have significant impact on the nursing profession. It points out that ABEn has always had an active, pacific and accurate way of working. It emphasizes that the association has dealt with de law making-body and executive members of the government, based on technical arguments and secondary data in order to comply with the nursing professional's needs.
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Legislação de Enfermagem/história , Sociedades de Enfermagem/história , Brasil , História do Século XX , Prática Profissional/legislação & jurisprudência , Sociedades de Enfermagem/legislação & jurisprudênciaRESUMO
Exploratory and descriptive study with the following objectives: to identify the nursing students' feelings related to the undergraduate course and their perception towards the nursing profession. After the four-year course, 57.4% of students perceived nursing in a positive way as a profession for the future, valued, recognised, compensating even with some limitations. However, 25% of students still perceived nursing as a mechanical, manual and sacrificed profession, with a limited scientific vision and with a gap between theory and practice and as a consequence a lower recognition by the society. If current trends are maintained, the nurse's value would be much greater in the next decades within the Brazilian society according to 61% of respondents.
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Filosofia em Enfermagem , Estudantes de Enfermagem/psicologia , Adulto , Brasil , Emoções , Feminino , Humanos , MasculinoRESUMO
Study based on testament-letters written by freshmen students of the undergraduate course in Nursing, who should imagine to be in the year 2030. Everything imagined by these students and that might have happened in the three earlier decades was the subject of this study, such as professional and nurses achievements, outbreak of cure for illnesses, social prestige and positions.
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Educação de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem , Previsões , Estudantes de Enfermagem , Adolescente , Adulto , Brasil , Currículo , Educação Continuada em Enfermagem , Feminino , Humanos , MasculinoRESUMO
This paper presents a simplified summary of the process to make laws. It starts from the juridical concepts, requirements needed, hierarchy of the Brazilian laws, the need to follow proper steps through channels and committees within the National Congress, quorum required until its final approval with the presidential sanction, when a project of law becomes an enacted law. The purpose is to help nurses and other interested people to participate in the development of their profession through laws which better fulfill the professional interests of the group.
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Legislação como Assunto/organização & administração , Brasil , Governo , Humanos , Enfermeiras e Enfermeiros , PolíticaRESUMO
Modern nursing in Brazil started in 1923 with the creation of a School of Nursing, whose first graduates became the country's nursing's pioneers. They founded the Brazilian Nursing Association three years after graduation, and since then practically every achievement by the nursing profession is a result or a consequence of their active work.
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Enfermagem/organização & administração , Autonomia Profissional , Brasil , Humanos , Licenciamento em Enfermagem/legislação & jurisprudência , Licenciamento em Enfermagem/tendências , Escolas de Enfermagem/organização & administração , Sociedades de Enfermagem/organização & administraçãoRESUMO
The support offered by the ICN to the african countries of portuguese language, is described in this paper. The countries that participated of the ICN' Project were Angola, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Moçambique, São Tomé and Principe. The purposes of the project are: analyse development of nursing in these countries; identify the needs of the nurses of the these countries; to evaluate the health systems and work to introduce the nurse in these systems; to identify the strughts and issues of the nursing associations; to promote the relationship among nurses and to establish plan to reinforce the national Nursing Association. We don't think that nursing is ready and well structured now, but this Project will be the first step in this direction. We have results an had some example of this is affiliation to the ICN of some African countries that have been made.
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Cooperação Internacional , Enfermagem Transcultural/tendências , África Austral , África Ocidental , Conselho Internacional de Enfermagem , Portugal , Organização Mundial da SaúdeRESUMO
The objective of this study was to outline a profile of the nurses working within the INAMPS (National Health Service) outpatients centers in Brasil. Its purpose was to offer some assistance on the understanding of the subject, to the nursing educational system, to the employers of the product of that system, to the nurses' associations and to the nurses themselves. In the pursue of the objective, the author depicted: personal and professional traits of the nurses; job satisfaction and perceived support from the administration; the most frequent nurses activities performed. It also established the relations between nurses traits, job satisfaction, perceived support, and activities performed. Data was collected from March to December 1984. The questionnaires were sent to the universe of working nurses in the outpatient centers--1158 nurses. 927 (80.1%) answers were obtained. The population studied represented: 94.3% female, majority married; 30 to 40 years old, year of graduation and year of admission in the INAMPS in the 70's. Gross results were: job satisfaction 83.6%, perception of support from administration 75.2%, prepared as specialists 71.3%, and frequence to continuing educational programs 84.1%. Mains activities performed by nurses in decreasing order: supervision of nursing personnel 39.3%, direct nursing care 36.7%, teaching of patients and families 21.7%, administrative--functions 17.9%, and inservice training of personnel 3.6%. No relation was demonstrated between graduate preparation and job satisfaction nor perceived support from administration. Positive relation was found between educative activities and job satisfaction, and between supervision of nursing personnel or performance of administrative functions and perception of support from the administration.