45 YEARS OF THE ACADEMIC GRADUATE PROGRAM IN NURSING AT UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA

On January 27^th, 1976, through Ordinance N^o. 28, at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), the Master's Course in Nursing Science: Area of Concentration (AC) in Adults' Health was born, under coordination of Professor Ingrid Elsen. In 1993, it started to offer the PhD Course in Nursing Philosophy. In 2010, the Post-PhD in Nursing launched. And, in 2021, when celebrating 45 years, the Graduate Program in Nursing (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, PEN) is rated with Concept 6 by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, CAPES), which corresponds to an International Excellence Program, and structured in two areas of concentration - AC: 1) Philosophy and Care in Health and Nursing and 2) Education and Work in Health and Nursing.

In 2026, the PEN will be 50 years old! Therefore, the 45^th anniversary celebrations will trigger a sequence of events to be held over the next five years until the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary. During this period, the expressive regional, national and international insertion will be highlighted, which reflected in the consolidation of concept six. By October 2021, 810 Masters, 410 PhD and 80 Post-PhD degrees had been awarded. Likewise, in relation to its international solidarity, the PEN/UFSC has already awarded 40 Masters, 16 PhD and 8 Post-PhD students, totaling 64 foreign professionals.

As part of the 45^th anniversary celebrations, in this issue of Revista Texto & Contexto Enfermagem, two articles were specially designed to portray the trajectory of academic excellence at PEN. The first, entitled “Graduate Program in Nursing: 45 years of contributions to the internationalization of Brazilian nursing”1, brings to light one of the aspects that has permeated the program's activities since its creation: the internationalization of its internal and external actions. For this, the authors provide a description of the internationalization trajectory, substantiating the historical milestones of development of the PEN, thus called: Ground zero, Consolidation Milestone and Excellence Milestone. The second, entitled “Academic Graduate Program in Nursing at UFSC: technological, political, social and economic impacts”2, addresses the different impacts of Graduate Nursing: technological, political, social and economic, analyzing and contextualizing their concepts, assumptions, indicators and adequacy to the field of Nursing and Health considering CAPES assessment guidelines. In addition to that, it presents some of the monitoring strategies for graduates of Nursing Graduate Programs, as important subsidies for the improvement of the management processes of the program itself and of professional training and insertion. In this sense, the planning of graduate nursing programs needs to consider the national and international contexts, economic and social challenges, health indicators and the social and development needs of the Unified Health System (SUS)3.

In the history of the PEN and with an emphasis on internationalization, it is important to record the development of the Interinstitutional Master's Program with Universidad de Magallanes, Chile. The Course was developed from 2017 to 2019 and was the first International Masters' Degree Course at UFSC. Based on the success of this partnership, the development of an International PhD Course with the same institution is expected4.

Currently, the PEN is made up of 38 professors, 30 permanent and 8 collaborators, 60 master's students, 102 PhD students, 7 Post-PhD fellows, 1 administrative technician, 1 from the financial administrative secretariat, 1 scholarship holder, and 1 librarian at Revista Texto & Contexto, totaling an internal PEN collective of 211 individuals. From the planning, execution, funding and articulation with internal and external partners of UFSC, the collective that we qualify here, divides tasks among its members, invites them to participate actively and produces alliances. Therefore, we are the PEN collective, either because we unite in the same interface everything that already represents us, or because in this same interface we need to continue doing. We are not free from the demands of the neoliberal state, contemporary capitalism, financial strangulation or surveillance over our actions. It is not possible to act outside of it, it would be an illusion. However, the task ahead is to produce more possibilities for us to work together in this network of relationships aiming at the development of research in Nursing and Health.

Anyway, these are some of the immeasurable highlights that built and structured a legacy. In addition, it is for this reason that we want to mention the people who made and are part of this legacy. Each person left their special contribution and marked us, provoked us and mobilized us. Given the impossibility of naming each person who represents these 45 years, through the Coordinators and Sub-Coordinators, we thank the entire collective of what we now call PEN. This is the list of PEN's administrations:

2021-2024 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Mara Ambrosina de Oliveira Vargas

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. José Luís Guedes dos Santos

2017-2021 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Jussara Gue Martini

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Eliane Regina Pereira do Nascimento

2013-2016 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Vânia Marli Schubert Backes

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Odaléa Maria Brüggemann

2011-2012 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Flávia Regina Souza Ramos

Sub-Coordinator: Vânia Marli Schubert Backes

2009-2010 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Flávia Regina Souza Ramos

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza Padilha

>2007- 2008 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Marta Lenise do Prado

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Vânia Marli Schubert Backes

2005-2007 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza Padilha

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Marta Lenise do Prado

2003-2005 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza Padilha

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Marta Lenise do Prado

2001-2003 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Denise Elvira Pires de Pires.

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza Padilha

1999-2001 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Denise Elvira Pires de Pires.

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Maria Itayra Coelho de Souza Padilha

1997-1999 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann.

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Denise Elvira Pires de Pires

1995-1997 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Lúcia Hisako Takase Gonçalves

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Maria Tereza Leopardi/Dr. Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann.

1994-1995 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Rosita Saupe

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Lúcia Hisako Takase Gonçalves

1992-1994 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Maria Tereza Leopardi

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Ingrid Elsen

1991-1992 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Ingrid Elsen

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Maria Tereza Leopardi

1986-1991 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Ingrid Elsen

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Mercedes Trentini

1982-1986 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Eloita Pereira Neves

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Lúcia Hisako Takase Gonçalves

1979-1982 Administration

Coordinator: Dr. Lúcia Hisako Takase Gonçalves

Sub-Coordinator: MSc. Alacoque Lorenzini Erdmann.

1977-1979 Administration

Coordinator: MSc. Maria Albertina Braglia Pacheco

Sub-Coordinator: Dr. Lúcia Hisako Takase Gonçalves

1976 Administration

Program Coordinator: Prof. Ingrid Elsen

We also present (Figure 1) the Research Laboratories that are part of the PEN and in which professors and students are linked for the development of their studies:

Figure 1 -
Research Laboratories that are part of the Programa de Pós-graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Florianópolis, SC, Brasil.

Finally, we would like to once again thank everyone who built the history of the PEN and emphasize our commitment to continuing this work. We invite everyone to follow our website and our social networks for information about the events and activities that will mark our 45^th anniversary celebrations towards the 50^th anniversary.

REFERENCES

• 1. Pires DEP, Padilha MI, Ramos FRS, Backes VMS, Bruggemann OM. Programa de pós-graduação em enfermagem da UFSC: 45 anos de contribuição para a internacionalização da enfermagem brasileira. Texto Contexto Enferm [Internet]. 2021 [cited 2021 Oct 4];30:e20210102. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-265X-TCE-2021-0102
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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  01 Nov 2021
• Date of issue
  2021