The object of this study is the access to the course and curricular adaptations during the reorganization of the professional education of nurses in the Alfredo Pinto Nursing School (EEAP), in the first half of the management of Maria de Castro Pamphiro (1943- 1949). Objectives: To identify the forms and ways of access to the course of nurses in the Alfredo Pinto Nursing School, in the period between 1943 and 1949; and to analyze the curriculum in this school and its adaptations front to the requirements of the theoretical and practical education in the formation of these nurses, in this period. Historical- social study carried through from 2003 till 2005 and based in document analysis of the Sectorial Archive of EEAP/UNIRIO and existing literature about the subject. The results had evidenced that the Director used strategies that had been beyond the demanded ones for the 1942 regulation, to guarantee the access to the nursing course and to raise the quality of education of the EEAP being approached its resume of that would be demanded by Law 775/49.
History of Nursing; Education; Schools, Nursing
