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A new psychiatric nursing in the university of Brazil in the 60’s of the 20th century

Historical-social study about the implementation of a model of psychiatric nursing, by the School Ana Nery (EAN), in the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of Brazil (IPUB). The initial landmark corresponds to the contracting of a professor of the school as the leader of the service of nursing of the IPUB, in 1962, and the final landmark to the enclosure of the nurses like members of the team of health of the IPUB, in 1963. Objective: describe the situation of the psychiatric nursing in the IPUB; analyze the strategies adopted in the reform of the nursing; discuss the importance of that know/ power about the nursing. Theoretical reference: concepts of Michel Foucault. Springs: documents writing, oral statements and bibliography. Results: the strategies utilized were of administrative, technical, and political nature; his conditions of possibility were given by the accumulation of charges (educational and assistencial) The consolidation of the new model, extended for other schools, became the EAN/IPUB centers of diffusion of know about the psychiatric nursing in Brazil.

Psychiatric nursing; History of the nursing; Teaching


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