Discurso de abertura nos IX COBEON*, III CIEON* e ABENFO* 2015 em Belém, PA, Brasil

Abstract

The IX COBEON and III CIEON were organized by ABENFO and implemented by the Pará (PA) Session of ABENFO in the "heart" of the Amazon (Belém City, Pará State, 2-4 Dez 2015). The congress theme was "Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing: impacts, achievements, and challenges for sexual and reproductive health and safe and enjoyable maternity".After three decades of existence of ABENFO, we highlight some landmarks: a) the firm defense of human and citizen rights of both women and men in the context of the society and family; b) its engagement in including nursing professionals in the government proposals to defend SUS (which is equitable, has an expanded coverage, unrestricted access, management and care for quality, and participation of all professionals); c) the recognition of Nursing as an applied social science, which is committed to the care, teaching, and research trilogy, and its reciprocal relationship between the practical and academic worlds, and d) its commitment to the social movements including women and the health professional categories, a commitment that is inherent to a humanistic and ecological profession of the art of caring for life.In addition, we recognize the internal movements that occurred along the professional and ABENFO journeys, such as those of students during their undergraduate courses, specializations in obstetric