Em busca de uma práxis transformadora

Abstract

309Rev Bras Enferm, Brasília 2013 mai-jun; 66(3): 309-10. EDITORIALThe systematized academic nursing knowledge in Brazil is relatively young, considering that its development initiated only half a century ago when in 1963, Glete de Alcantara, professor at the School of Nursing in RibeirãoPreto, University of São Paulo, defended the first doctoral thesis in Latin America (1) . Since then, nursing research has grown considerably and the scientific production that initially had a slow progress has gradually achieved an enviable position. (3) .The discussion regarding nursing scientific production continues in the 17 th SENPE held in Natal-RN, June 3 -5, 2013, and the theme The classical and the emergent: challenges to nursing research. The event had three thematic perspectives: ethical and bioethical challenges to the production of nursing knowledge; old and new issues of nursing research; the object of nursing research and its reasons: possibilities and boundaries of the research lines and groups. The objectives were: to debate the social responsibility in nursing research and its impact on the production, dissemination and utilization of knowledge; to discuss the implications of nursing knowledge upon public policy in social and health care, the formation of nurse researchers and research networks; to promote the socialization of nursing knowledge produced by national and international research institutions; to reflect on the limits and potentialities of the lines of research and nursing research groups, and their contribution to the transformation of health and nursing practice.Among other themes related to the production of scientific knowledge, for the first time an intense discussion was undertaken regarding the research work process that produces harmful effects on the quality of life of its researchers. If Marx (4) is correct when he states that as man transforms reality he also transforms himself, then the transformation of current reality has also produced an undesirable and unnecessary human wastage of the researcher. Undoubtedly, the Seminar theme was prompted by this situation as well as by the observed adverse effects related to the production and diffusion of a quantity of studies that lack the desired praxis, in spite of the recognizable contribution that this production has made to the advancement of nursing science. The science and technology national policy confirms this scenario as it legitimately promotes Brazil as a knowledge producing country internationally while, on the other hand, it enables the construction of questionable evaluation