Abstract:Throughout history, Brazilian nursing has been stimulated by several issues, including: neoliberal policies, capital interests and dominant social classes; the search to numerically expand its staff of professionals. Nursing, grounded in a dominant discourse, pointed out that it was necessary to increase the number of professionals so that we could improve the performance and representativeness of nursing in Brazil. Calculated upon this ideology, we arrived to the numbers of today. In April of 2013 we totaled … Show more
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