Editorial - Comemoração: os 70 anos da Universidade de São Paulo e a Enfermagem Brasileira

Abstract

On January 25, 2004 we celebrated the 70 th anniversary of the University of Sao Paulo. What's the meaning of this celebration for the Brazilian nursing? Statistics confirm the position of USP as the best institution of higher education and research of the country. It's the third in Latin America and it's among the first one hundred organizations of its kind in the world. In 6 university campuses distributed in the capital and the country side of Sao Paulo State, it has 36 teaching units which, together minister 189 undergraduate courses, where they receive 42,554 students, 267 Master's students and 252 Doctorate students with the amount of 27,709 enrolled students. Having more than 4,800 professors and 14,900 employees, it annually graduates in average 4,600 undergraduate students. It also holds scientific bases, museums, specialized institutes, complementary institutions and associated entities. On January 25 th , 1934, the act 6283, signed by Armando Salles de Oliveira, the Sao Paulo State governor in that time, created the University of São Paulo and established its purposes: to promote research, the progress of science; to transmit by teaching knowledge which enrich and develop the spirit and be useful in life; to make specialists in all the culture areas, technicians and professionals in all professions of scientific and artistic basis; to carry out social work to spread science, languages and arts; by condensed courses, conferences, lectures, radio broadcast, scientific films and similar. Since then, it carries the "win by science" legacy.

Dissertações produzidas no Programa de Pós-Graduação e Mestrado em Enfermagem da Universidade Federal do Paraná

“…New knowledge is important for nursing and health in order to develop both scienti fi c and technologically (2) , and is provided by the advances in nursing studies and because of strictu sensu graduate studies from the 1970s to the 20 th century (9,10) . Graduate educati on, today, is a consolidated segment of Brazilian educati on that, over the last decades, has made signifi cant contributi ons to the development of qualifi ed human resources and to the scienti fi c development of the country.…”