The aim in this research is to analyze the initial initiatives of the Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem for the development of nursing research. Considering a time frame that encompasses the period from 1932 to 1971, when the Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Brazilian Nursing Journal), until the creation of the Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas, of the Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem. The sources used were written documents located in the Documentation Center of Anna Nery School of Nursing at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and in the Memory Center of the Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem, besides journal issues located in the Sectorial Library of the Graduate Program at Anna Nery School of Nursing. In this analysis, it is perceived that this association's efforts represented a true space of research and education of nurse researchers in Brazil.
Nursing; History of nursing; Nursing Research