“…According to Furukawa (2009), at that time, the Rockefeller Foundation offered them training abroad, already with the intention of training nurses under the paradigm of the Anglo-American nursing model developed in the United States of America (USA), which would come to prevail in the Americas. This fact marked the history of education and preparation of the former leaders of the ABEn for positions of leadership, in several health areas, after receiving training in education institutions such as the University of Toronto, Canada (Oguisso, 2002(Oguisso, , 2003 and the University of Philadelphia in the USA (Anonymous, 2002;Oguisso, Freitas, & Takashi, 2013), as well as after completing traineeships and financed courses at renowned institutions in the USA (Borenstein, Padilha, Caetano, & Mancia, 2004), France and Canada, in addition to post-graduation courses in Nursing Administration and Teaching (Oguisso, 2002;Oguisso et al, 2013) in New York, USA, and the Master's Degree at the University of Columbia, in the USA (Oguisso, 2002(Oguisso, , 2003. This phenomenon occurred mainly after 1922, with the creation of the Nurses' Service of the National Public Health Department, followed by the foundation of the Anna Nery Nursing School (EEAN) in 1923, and continued until 1933, with the creation of the Nursing School Carlos Chagas (EECC; Furukawa, 2009).…”