Objective:
To describe the preliminary steps for enabling the Survey and to analyze the strategies used by the nurses involved, aimed at conducting the Survey.
Methods:
It is a social-historical study, where the sources used were written documents found in the Documentation Center of the School of Nursing Anna Nery located at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and in the Memory Center of the Brazilian Nursing Association.
Results:
The timeframe covered is from 1954 to 1958, covering, thus, the period of planning and implementing the mentioned Investigation by the Brazilian Nursing Association. From the 7th Brazilian Professional Nursing Practice Congress in 1954 until the delivery of the Final Report of the research in 1958, the nurses involved in the Investigation, through the Association, had to develop strategies to enable and complete this research.
Conclusion:
From this perspective, the different types of capital (economic, social and symbolic) that they were able to accrue and collect proved to be an effective strategy during the implementation of the Investigation.
History; History of nursing; Memory; Nursing Research