O ensino superior de enfermagem no município de Uberaba, MG: raízes da institucionalização / The higher education in Nursing in the city of Uberaba, MG: the roots of the institutionalization

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

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In this study we dedicated ourselves to the historical and social investigation of the institutionalization of Nursing Education in the city of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, being a research substantiated in reasons of macropolitical character and of local politics. For that, the period which was analised started in 1948 with the creation of the Frei Eugênio Nursing College of higher education (which was closed in 1970). We related the social, economical and politic, cultural characteristics of Uberabas society and the performance of the social agents who were present in the political scenery, and who contributed to the emergence of Nursing as education and profession. We also searched the comprehension of the origins and settlement of Nursing education in 1988 from the Nursing College that was attached to the Medicine college in the city. The direct and indirect influences were identified through questionnaries pertinent to the creation, extinction and settlement of Nursing education referred to the city mentioned before. For the reference basis to the understanding of the political conjuncture we researched Karl Marxs and Pierre Bourdieus theoretical ideals, used in this study as a complement one to another. These ideals allowed the construction of the societys view in the period analysed in the cultural, historical and social, political and economical sectors; the emergence of the Nursing course as a demand of that society and the symbolic competition for a Power which is also symbolic for the teaching of the profession. The data analysed obtained from primary sources were collected from testimonies given by the social actors in the city, relevantly involved with the creation and development of two Nursing colleges of higher education in 1948 and 1988. The secondary sources were obtained through visits to the Public Archive of Uberaba, confidential documents of the interviewees, information in documents of colleges, newspapers and entities related to the Nursing social class. The identity of the interviewees and the involved ones were revealed only when authorised to. We observed that the performance of the Dominican Sisters was evident due to their work in the Santa Casa da Misericórdia as soon as they had settled in the city. Some factors, like the lack of speciallised workforce and Vargas national policy were important but the major impulse was the threat of other religious orders. Regarding the conjuncture of the institutionalization of Nursing Education with the Faculdade de Medicina do Triângulo Mineiro (in free translation, Medicine College of Triângulo Mineiro) (today the Universidade Federal do Triângulo - or in free translation, the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro), we observed that the emergence of it occurred because of the action of social agents towards an university who were led by Mário Palmério.The support of other institutions and the involvement of public Power were also necessary. In addition, we emphasize that legal demands of the class of Nursing entities and na internal ambition added to the roots of this institutionalization. Finally, new studies could better explore the subject of the analysis, we believe that it does not end from this version.

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nursing history história da enfermagem institucionalização education ensino enfermagem profissional institucionalization professional nursing

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