Opposition to the American leadership by Brazilian nurses (1934-1938)

Abstract

Santos TCF, Lopes GT, Porto F, Fonte AS. Opposition to the american leadership by Brazilian nurses (1934)(1935)(1936)(1937)(1938)

Project HOPE: American nurses in Brazil (1973)

“…Finally, following the example of what happened at the creation of the School of Nursing of the National Department of Public Health (Departamento Nacional de Saúde Pública) in 1922, now known as the Anna Nery Nursing School, the American presence ends up imposing a legitimate worldview (25) .…”

Participação americana na formação de um modelo de enfermeira na sociedade brasileira na década de 1920

“…Across a decade, the American nurses struggled to build the image of a solidly prepared nurse, even going against many physicians inside the DNSP, who merely wanted to solve the most immediate problems in their daily practice. In that struggle, it was verified that the training process of Brazilian nurses included strategies aimed at granting visibility to the emerging profession in the Brazilian society, through the establishment of rituals and emblems of the profession and the adoption of strict discipline, which modeled the behavior of future nurses (3) .…”

“…The creation of Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, in 1992, led to the transposition, to Brazil, of a nursing model that combined the characteristics of the traditional Nightingale model with others developed during its adaptation process to the American society since the times of the civil war (3) .…”