The thematic focus of this work is a call for reconsidering Education and Research on Nursing History (NH). Such movement is deemed a late manifestation in a process of improvement in Nursing knowledge, mediated by the development of stricto sensu Postgraduate programs, by the end of the 20th century, when a wakening of the Nursing area was seen due to a need to search for balance between technical and scientific competence and the ability for social criticism and professional self-assessment. An analysis of the possibilities and limitations of education and research in NH is presented, as well as its contribution to the advancement of the profession, and implications from understanding NH as an interdisciplinary field are discussed.
nursing; history of nursing; Brazil