The contribution of the Brazilian Nurses Association-Santa Catarina in the 75 years of the Brazilian Nurses Association

The present work describes the trajectory of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn) in Santa Catarina since its inception on 13 March 1962, until the present days. It refers to the precarious situation of nursing in the 1960's and the insufficiency of professionals in that federal state, as the main reasons for the creation of the branch in that state. The activities developed by ABEn-SC are reported in this study in order to reveal the nature and political position of the association towards social impacts and public departments. The study explains the means used to give publicity and to up-date the profession and the events that this association has carried out or cooperated with. It also makes reference to the partners that have given support to the ABEn-SC and the way it has promoted its activities.     

Rethinking the teaching major in nursing under current curricular guidelines

This is a report about the design of a curricular proposal for the Teaching Major in Nursing from Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). In this article, we present a brief history line of this undergraduate program, its current curricular structure at UFRGS, as well as existing legislation both at its educational and nursing levels. Finally, the results of studies carried out by the Teaching Majors Coordination (COORLICEN) at UFRGS are reported, besides a proposal for curricular changes to the nursing major, according to the National Curricular Guidelines for Teacher Education and legislation pertaining to this profession.     

The Brazilian Nursing Association in the creation,implementation and development of nursing boards

The Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn) was founded in 1926. The association has been the source for the creation of new professional organizations and the motivator of the development of the nursing profession in the country. The creation, implantation and development of the nursing boards are important achievements of ABEn. Twenty-eight years of struggle to approve the law number 5.905 of 12 July 1973, which created the nursing boards. Implantation of the Federal Board of Nursing (COFEn) and CORENS done under the leadership of ABEn. ABEn's participation in the development of the federal and regional boards of nursing. Current situation of the relationship between ABEn, syndicates, and nursing boards.     

Minor psychiatric disorders among nurses university faculties

This cross-sectional study addresses 130 nursing faculty members in federal universities from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It investigated the psychological demands and decision latitude (the Demand-Control Model by Karasek) and their association with Minor Psychological Disorders (MPDs). The Brazilian versions of the Self-Report-Questionnaire-20 and the Job Stress Scale were used. MPDs were prevalent in 20% of the studied individuals. After adjusting for potential confounders, the chances of participants presenting mental disorders were higher in the quadrant 'active strain jobs' (OR=14.23, 95% CI 1.55 to 130.73), followed by the 'high strain jobs' quadrant (OR=10.05, 95% CI 1.23 to 82.44), compared to nursing professors classified in the 'low strain jobs' quadrant. We conclude that high psychological demands and low control over work can cause disorders in nursing professors, among them, MPDs.     

Telling a beautiful story: the trajectory of the Brazilian Nurses Association-Bahia

This study presents the story of the Brazilian Association of Nursing in Bahia federal state. It parallels the trajectory of this association to the history of the National Brazilian Association of Nursing, pointing out the most important events in its fifty-three years of work. It is clear that the history of the Brazilian Association of Trained Nurses (ABED)/ABEn-Bahia begins with the foundation of the Nursing School of the Federal University of Bahia. Teachers at this university, who were nurses in their home states, and had participated in other associations previously, were motivated to create a new branch of ABEn in Bahia. The branch of ABEn in the city of Feira de Santana-Bahia, had a similar trajectory, since it was also founded after the creation of the State University of Feira de Santana. The branch of ABEn in Bahia is considered a democratic association, which is attentive to the claims of the nursing professionals, the health of the Brazilian population and also to the strengthening of the organization.     

Trajectory and campaign of the Brazilian Nurses Association in Minas Gerais

The present article describes the trajectory, the work and the achievements of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn) in Minas Gerais. It describes some contributions of the association for the growth and development of the nursing profession in Minas Gerais and in the whole country. The facts and events reported in this investigation were taken from meeting minutes, newspaper articles, journals of the association, records and summaries of events, and oral interviews. The study initially outlines the origin of the association in Brazil, establishing connections with the foundation and development of ABEn Minas Gerais. It also describes the most important events, struggles and achievements promoted by the twenty-two administrations of the association, which consolidated ABEn-Minas Gerais. The conclusion of the study is that the solidification of this branch was achieved due to the effort and involvement of people who really valued and wanted to develop the nursing profession.     

The Pan-American Federation of Nursing Professionals: a vision and perspective for the 21st century

This essay concerns the prospective vision of The Pan-American Federation of Nursing Professionals in the scenario of health and education in the new century. It discusses the concepts of association, leadership, and paths the profession has taken as a professional organization. It makes a brief historical study of the construction of nursing as profession and its organization as a corporation. In the second part it places FEPPEN in this context of nursing as corporation, revealing its aims and the specific struggles in which it has played an important role. Finally it discusses the role of associations in building a healthier and fairer society.     

Psychiatric nursing teaching and mental health -- an analysis based on the educational programs

This article addresses psychiatric nursing teaching and mental health in Nursing undergraduate courses at public universities of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It fundamentally uses as an instrument the programs followed in the different related subjects. Data are complemented with accounts given by course teachers and students. The courses in this field focus on what is normal and on what is pathological during life cycles and are centered on psychopathology as well as on psychiatric institutions.     

Concepts and scenarios in the teaching of psychiatric nursing and mental health

This work approaches the contradictions that are present in the teaching of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health in four public universities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It consists of a qualitative study based on a dialectic referential. The instruments used for the investigation were the programs of the courses of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health and interviews with fifteen teachers and fourteen students of the area. The central themes of the analysis were the conceptions and scenarios in which the teaching of Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health takes place. It was observed that these courses focus predominantly the concepts of normality and pathology during the cycle of life and are influenced by the discourse of preventive psychiatry and by psychoanalysis. It was also noticed that the courses mentioned adopt a psychodynamic approach. The majority of the training in the area still takes place in big psychiatric hospitals and emphasizes psychopathologies and its psychosocial determinations which consolidate the hospice model.     

The job of the hospital nurse: self-care and caring for others

The self-care of nurses is a requirement for the care of the patient, so that the care provided will not imply on the resignation of the nursing professional or the client. The objective of the present study is to verify how the work of hospital nurses has been done, regarding the self-care of these professionals and the care provided to patients. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with nurses from two different districts in Rio Grande do Sul, who had graduated from public universities in the same state and worked in hospitals of the respective districts. Results showed that these professionals expressed the need of taking care of themselves in order to provide care for their patients. It was also reported that nurses assume responsibilities of other professionals and lack, in their professional environment, human and material resources. This situation generates negative consequences for the nurse's self-care, as well as for the care of the patients. It is important that nursing professionals implement strategies to deal with asymmetric power relations in the hospital, based on their beliefs, values and knowledge. This can lead to more appropriate conditions of work, which can guarantee a more qualified self-care of the professional, and a better care for the patient.     

A gender reading about the (re)inauguration of a female practice: from England to Brazil

It is a gender reading of Florence Nightingale's main work, "Notes on Nursing: what is and what isn't", a book which brings together the principles and essential elements of modern nursing, professionalized in England in the second half of the XIX century and the way the profession was constituted in Brazil, as explicited in the work of Glete de Alcantara: "Modern nursing as a professional category: obstacles to its expansion in Brazilian society", the first nursing dissertation produced in the country, in 1963. It verified that in both situations the specificities of the nursing profession intermixes with that of the female working world.     

Fragments of nursing history: a knowledge created in the web of the theoretical submission process

The purpose of this research is to rescue from the 1950s onwards, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, both the discursive and non-discursive practices, on how the nursing teaching went on being redesigned, in search of a profession that would be more scientific, less technicistic, and how the nursing theories had had a participation in such process of transformations and contradictions. The survey has involved teaching nurses that had lived that period in history and, the discourse analysis was used for the documentary analysis. One of the analyses points out the importance of the nursing theories in the validation of the nurse's know-how between the 1950s and the 1980s.     

The trajectory of the Brazilian Nurses Association-Alagoas

This article outlines the trajectory of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn) in Alagoas and its influence in the organization of the nursing profession in this federal state. It points out that ABEn-AL was the first institution to organize nursing in Alagoas, since it was founded prior to any nursing graduation course or even any nursing syndicate. Therefore, ABEn is considered a decisive landmark in the political and professional organization of nursing in the state of Alagoas.     

Education, care and management technologies: a reflection based on nursing teachers' conception

This study involved the teachers of sixteen Nursing Courses at Higher Education Institutions in the State of Rio Grande do Sul and aimed to identify the care, education and management technologies that are used and/or produced in their professional praxis in professionalizing subjects. This text presents a research extract and focuses on the conceptions about the different types of technologies the teachers approached. Data were collected through a questionnaire with closed and open questions and later analyzed according to the methodological framework of content analysis. The study revealed that most teachers presented a restricted concept of the theme, manifesting difficulties for technology use and production and suggesting ways of support to overcome these difficulties, with a view to improving professional praxis.     

Brazilian Nurses Association Sergipe Chapter: 47 years of struggle and resistance

This work outlines the facts that contributed for the creation of the Brazilian Association of Nursing in Sergipe. It reports the trajectory, contributions and main accomplishments of ABEN in that state, pointing out its participation in the foundation and organization of services and institutions. The study also mentions the difficulties faced by ABEn-Sergipe, but mainly, it emphasizes the struggle of the association for maintaining its principles, its role in the social and cultural organization of the syndicate, and the availability of the nursing service for the community.     

The association movement of the Brazilian graduate nurses in the first half of the 20th Century

The present study is a socio-historical research. It discusses the association of trained nurses in Brazil, which was represented by opponent groups, and the struggle of these groups in introducing their positions and viewpoints in the professional organizations. The investigation focuses the period of time between the foundation of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn), in 1926, until the first half of the twentieth century. Despite the political and doctrinal levels, which guided nursing strategies to fortify their positions in this environment, the articulation of opponent groups in the achievement of common professional objectives promoted the regulation and redefinition of the nursing profession.     

1986-2001: Ideals and dreams reached in 15 years of campaigns,work and achievements of the Brazilian Association of Nursing-Itajubá region

The present article reports the trajectory of a regional branch of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn) in Itajubá. It shows the development of this association since its inception until the present days. The study also depicts how the efforts invested and the success obtained helped on the development and strengthening of the nursing work in the south region of Minas Gerais.     

Popular knowledge and health education in nursing training

From the point of view of including the health reform in the pedagogical projects of nursing courses, in accordance with curriculum guidelines, it contextualises the formation of a nurse for health education and the importance of bringing practice and care together, as well as includes the results of research with nurses in seven towns in rural communities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It is a qualitative survey with data collection by means of participatory observation, interviews, and document-based content analysis. These data were obtained in activities observed in the work of nurses in health education. It concludes that the work of nurses was full of educational actions, both collective and individual ones. On the other hand, undergraduate courses do not sufficiently prepare students to perform this role.