This is by nature a historical research, which intends to analyze the implementation of Nursing Process (Nursing Assistance Methodology) in Brazil, in the period of 1960 to 1986. The historical sources are 47 articles selected among the ones published by Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Brazilian Magazine on Nursing), in that period. The article selection criteria were that they had to deal somehow with reflections on nursing assistance practice, or to be experience reports on nursing process implementation, also Wanda de Aguiar Horta's articles were selected. The findings of the articles analysis, contextualized with public politician-economic aspects, indicated what caused the difficulties for the implementation of such methodology, ahead of the antagonistic requirements of the market of work in the analyzed period. Therefore, the tried difficulties and opposition not fit only to the will of the professionals, but, yes, they had been larded for the antagonistic interests of the Brazilian society.
Nursing Process; Nursing History; Methodology; Nursing Diagnosis; Nursing Care