[The Nursing School of Hospital São Paulo and its first curriculum (1939-1942)].

Abstract

The educational model adopted in Brazil, from nithingaleana school didn't contemplate the reality of Brazilian health in 30's, period of the nurse's School from São Paulo Hospital fundation (EEHSP). The article is about a research that had the objective to describe and to analyze the creation process and elaboration of the first curriculum of EEHSP, made from a historical approach, having the qualitative research as a methodological resource. Documental analyses of primary and secondary sources were accomplished, besides interviews with characters relationed with that institution. The important paper of the School From São Paulo of Medicine (EPM) was verified in the EEHSP creation, particularly in the teachers' illustration and directors involved with their courses, as the decisive participation of Catholic nuns. We verified that the drawing of this first curriculum was ruled from the educational model of Anna Nery school, it had been seen as the model school according to the era.