Objective: To describe the circumstances that determine the creation of the Brazilian Association of Graduate Nurses of the Federal District Section and analyze its implications for the reorganization of the field of nursing. Method: Qualitative, socio-historical, documentary study. The analysis generated the following category: Creation of a new group to guarantee unity: Brazilian Association of Graduate Nurses in the Federal District Section. Results: The economic crisis resulting from the Second World War, the creation of the Paulista Association of Graduate Nurses and the increase in the number of Schools of Nursing in the country were decisive for the Brazilian Association of Graduate Nurses to reformulate its statute as to guarantee its unit. Final considerations: The creation of the Federal District Section consisted of one of the strategies of the Association to reorganize the field of nursing, in order to ensure the recognition of the profession by the society.
Objectives: to analyze the transfer process of the Brazilian Nursing Association to its new headquarters in Brasília/Federal District. Methods: qualitative, socio-historical, and documental study. The analysis generated the following characteristics: Associate reorganization: the transfer from the Central ABEn headquarters; and the Strategies used in the struggle for the appropriation of space. Results: the Brazilian Nursing Association was engaged in a struggle, which lasted nine years, for the acquisition of land in the new Federal Capital, Brasília, to ensure a prestigious place for the Association, and for nursing as well. Final Considerations: together with their sections, undertook efforts and implemented strategies to find a space in the new Federal Capital, allowing visibility and recognition to the nursing profession.
Objective: to reflect on the immediate effects of the Technical Cooperation Mission for Nursing Development in Brazil, headed by Ethel Parsons. Method: this is a theoretical reflection on the immediate effects of the performance of the mission of nurses led by Ethel Parsons, covering the period from 1921 to 1931. Results: The Parsons Mission provided important effects for the implementation of nursing in Brazil, such as the creation of an Anglo-American nursing school, the first in the country to be organized and directed by nurses; a general care hospital that met the practice needs of these new professionals, linked to the nursing school; a service of public health nurses in the National Department, to which the school and services were linked; as well as the creation of emblems and institutional rituals, which conferred visibility and molds for the construction of a professional identity. Conclusions: The Parsons Mission in its 10 years of operation produced significant effects for the nursing profession in the country, which provided visibility to the figure of the registered nurse and opened paths for the profession to rise to more prestigious and active positions.
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