ABSTRACT
Objective:
to historicize the professional journey of Mercedes Trentini and her contribution to Brazilian nursing according to her biography.
Method:
a qualitative study with a socio-historical approach, whose data were collected through the Oral Biographical History and Documentary Research method.
Results:
four categories were established from the analysis of the data:
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1) Her insertion in the nursing world and in the Undergraduate Course;
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2) Her journey in the Post-Graduate Nursing course;
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3) The creation of the Research Center for Nursing and Health Care for People with Chronic Diseases; And
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4) The paths taken to create the Convergent-Care Research.
Conclusion:
professor Mercedes Trentini characterized herself as an original, innovative person, committed to the nursing profession and, as a result, played an important role contributing to the excellence of the Nursing Graduate Program of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina as researcher and founder of one of the first research groups in Brazil, and her exemplary contribution to the creation of the Convergent-Care Research Method. In Brazil, this research method has contributed to the strengthening of the implementation of the research results to care practice.
