Enfermeiras americanas do Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública e a formação de recursos humanos na Enfermagem Brasileira

Abstract

Objective: To historicize the changes in training human resources in nursing in Brazil during the period from 1942 to 1961 based on the presence of 35 American nurses assigned to work in cooperation with Special Public Health Service. Method: The sources used for the study were reports written by American nurses who described their impressions, suggestions, and the activities they carried out in the country. These were analyzed based on the discourse analysis of Michel Foucault. Results: The period mentioned was marked by an American presence in nursing projects developed by the Special Public Health Service. The discourses indicated that the period was marked by many changes in Brazilian nursing, particularly with respect to attracting and training human resources for the profession. Conclusion: The results indicate that the American nurses, through what they said and their influence, were central to the consolidation of a new paradigm in the training of nursing professionals in Brazil.

Capital simbólico do trabalho das visitadoras sanitárias da Fundação Serviço de Saúde Pública, Alagoas/Brasil

“…Esses cursos beneficiavam, sobretudo, as regiões Norte e Nordeste do país, pois, pelo Programa da Amazônia, o Sesp percebeu, logo no início de suas atividades, a falta de pessoal treinado para realizar visitas nas residências da região e propagar ideias de higiene e saneamento à população. As visitadoras foram pensadas não apenas para sanar a falta de pessoal para realizar as visitas domiciliares, mas também para trabalhar aspectos de higiene dentro do seio familiar (Bonini et al, 2015).…”

The higher education in nursing in Rio Grande do Norte: revisiting the history

“…2 From the beginning of Nursing professionalization in the country, its leaderships demonstrated worrisome with formation of human resources, specially in what is about the frmation of scientific-technician and ethical-political formation. 3 The advent of University Reform, enabled the incorporation of Nursing schools in Health Science or Biomedical Centers, assuring the emancipation of School of Medicine; faculty composed by nurses; stricto sensu graduate institution; faculty qualification; access to national community of researchers; a new curriculum; and opening new schools in the country. 4,5 Faced with this, this research presents as aim to analyze the instutionalization of higher education in nursing in Rio Grande do Norte, in the 1970s, being needed, thus, to revisit history.…”