Abstract
This paper analyzes the professional formation of nursing in Brazil after the 1930s as part of a historical process that evaluates the professions and the professionalization in the country. Through several documents on the experience of the first female students at the Escola de Enfermagem de São Paulo, the movement is thought to underscore a rupture regarding the origins and the maintenance of representations established for nurses in Brazil. Changes were transposed from the new nursing model in the United States and applied in São Paulo as the nursing’s intellectual nucleus, center of professionalism as part of joint ventures undertaken during the Brazilian Estado Novo.
INTERDISCIPLINARY; PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION; NURSING; EDUCATIONAL MODELS