Enfermería Brasileña: Herencia de Florence Nightingale en su concepción profesional

Abstract

Objective: To describe the trajectory of the nightingalean nursing teaching model in use in Brazil and to seek a possible approach to Brazilian culture in the beginning of this professional construction. Method: Narrativity comes as a tool to reinterpret and reflect on the spread of Contemporaneous Nursing and the importance of the pioneer Florence Nightingale on her bicentenary of birth, celebrated this year of 2020. Results: The text describes how the thinking of Florence Nightingale influenced the teaching and practice of nursing in Brazil, from the beginning of the second decade of the twentieth century, and the teaching model implemented by American nurses with the Brazilian government, nationally standardized, launching as scientific bases the professional recognition of training nurses with the characteristic design, not only of the original English model, since the direction was acculturated with characters from North America. Conclusions: The narrative describes the development of the modern phase of nursing in Brazil with a model idealized in nightingalean principles without losing the characteristic features of the Brazilian culture of the beginning of the 20th century, whose influence was the Dona Anna Nery School of Nurses, created in 1923.