Contando uma bela história: a trajetória da ABEn - Bahia

Abstract

This study presents the story of the Brazilian Association of Nursing in Bahia federal state. It parallels the trajectory of this association to the history of the National Brazilian Association of Nursing, pointing out the most important events in its fifty-three years of work. It is clear that the history of the Brazilian Association of Trained Nurses (ABED)/ABEn-Bahia begins with the foundation of the Nursing School of the Federal University of Bahia. Teachers at this university, who were nurses in their home states, and had participated in other associations previously, were motivated to create a new branch of ABEn in Bahia. The branch of ABEn in the city of Feira de Santana-Bahia, had a similar trajectory, since it was also founded after the creation of the State University of Feira de Santana. The branch of ABEn in Bahia is considered a democratic association, which is attentive to the claims of the nursing professionals, the health of the Brazilian population and also to the strengthening of the organization.

Precarização do trabalho da enfermeira: militância profissional sob a ótica da imprensa

“…It should be noted that the SEEB was created only in 1981, (24) during the military government, when there was significant suppression of protest movements. This fact may justify the frivolous representation of the union by the newspaper, although it seems more assertive to conclude that the reduced value attributed to the union was derived from a nursing characteristic, (25,26) in this case possibly associated with the fragile political awareness of the category of professional, fear of repression, and the social stigmas that associated trade unionism with subversion.…”

Militancy of nurses in the institutionality field: printed media versions

“…Mobilization for the creation of a nurses' union began in the 1970s, after the Professional Association founding in 1973, and later, the Pro-Union Committee implementation in 1979. Once the Associação Profissional de Enfermeiros do Estado da Bahia (APEB -freely translated as Professional Association of Nurses of Bahia State), this and ABEn-BA created a commission to accelerate the process of inauguration of Nurses' Union (30) .…”