EditorialNursing Undergraduate Program celebrates 80 years -the building of a legacy T he Hospital São Paulo Nursing School, currently, the Paulista Nursing School (EPE), was founded in 1939 in a collaboration between Paulista Medical School (EPM) and Archdiocese of Sao Paulo upon arrival in Brazil of diplomate French nurses from Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. (1) e history of EPE is confounded with history of nursing profession itself because although Nightingale model or modern nursing was already presented at that time, especially due to advances related to the sanitary reform, nurses courses, at that time, were scarce and strongly in uenced by religious education provided Holy Houses of Mercy. (1) Despite strong religious in uence that can be seen in the slogan of the program Non vivere nisi ad serviendum (not to live but to serve) which remained up to 2007, (2) the nursing program was created to allow and guarantee the quality care in the Hospital Sao Paulo, which was recently founded at that time. e teaching hospital of EPM was founded with the purpose to educate professionals in the model adopted by the Nursing School Anna Nery (EEAN). (2)(3)(4) Regulations were elaborated in agreement with regulation nº 20.109 from June 15, 1931, (1,5) which regulates conditions to recognize diploma from nursing school in Brazil, and these regulations have as requisites to be directed by diplomate nurses, nursing content and supervision of practical activities done by nurses, in addition to admission criteria and organization of curriculum of EEAN. (5) e EPE was the rst nursing school in São Paulo and, at that time, one of the 10 that existed in Brazil. (1,3,4) e course's curriculum of Hospital Sao Paulo Nursing School was based on the Nightingale's model, focused on hospital environment and healing in medical practice, followed by expansion of hospitals network, in addition to curriculum model of EEAN that was based on North American Standard Curriculum for Nursing School, without any adaptation to the national reality. (1) At that time the course had 4,200 hours, and 12 hours of daily activities including theoretical and theoretical-practice classes done in medical school building and practical activities in the Hospital Sao Paulo, where all care activities occurred 24 hours a day with supervision of the religious nurses. e course duration was 3-years and counted with faculty from clinical and basic science areas from EPM and religious nurses. (2,3) Classes started in March 15, 1939 and, in the end of the same year, the director of EEAN, indicated by the Ministry of Education, did the rst inspection to certify the course. One of the requirement was that the responsible religious nurses, sister Marie Domineuc, sister