“…One of the leaders was the interim manager of the National Public Health Department, and created the Rachel Haddock Lobo School, while others were vice-directors and/or directors of the current Nursing College of the Federal University of São Paulo (EEUSP), whose foundations were also built on the work of these leaders (Oguisso, 2002;Alcântara, 1960;Oguisso et al, 2009). Different segments of the Brazilian healthcare services, public bodies and institutions were affected by the exercise of leadership of the former leaders of the ABEn, as for example, the Ministry of Health, the Superintendence of the HCFMUSP and ABEn itself during the creation of the Belo Horizonte and the São Paulo Sections (Ferrarini, 1968;Oguisso et al, 2013). In this period, in the Anna Nery School of Nursing, another leader also stood out in the field of education, and was soon appointed, by the country's President, as director of that institution, which marked the moment when the school was defined as an example to be followed (Azevedo et al, 2009) by the remaining schools.…”