| The main recommendations of the Congress [XXVIII Brazilian Nursing Congress], held in Salvador, elaborated on the morning of the 2nd, are directed, in their majority, to the directors of university hospitals, Nursing schools and to the ABEn, emphasizing the need for a curriculum that enables the student to perceive the functional characteristics of professional practice. Along with this aspect, emphasis was given to the damage that teaching disconnected from service brings, affecting the part of health care as well as that of education for the profession. (04.08.1975 – pg 3)
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Valuing the profession, the nurses' goal
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| The problems in nursing start with the teaching, which, as Maria Ivete Oliveira observes, “is not always focused on reality; schools do not always have human resources and materials available, which make a more objective learning possible”. (04.05.1980 – pg 2)
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Meeting ends with repudiation and suggestions
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| In the closing session of the meeting, held in the evening in the auditorium of the Institute of Health Sciences of the State, a document prepared by 11 work groups was distributed in which proposals for the reformulation of the curricula of Nursing and Midwifery courses are presented. [...] According to information from the president of the Executive Commission of the II Meeting, during the three days there were debates among participants from all over the country, presented by the Commission of Experts in Nursing of the MEC and by a group of professors from several other Brazilian states, in order to elaborate the single proposal with all the suggestions for the change of the curriculum. The main problems addressed in the proposal are related to the adequacy of the four professional qualifications in the area, with special attention to the qualification of the obstetric nurse or specialist in the maternal and child area, as well as a generalist nurse to later prepare for their adequacy in the existing qualifications. (11.09.1980 – pg 10)
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Nursing defines its banner of struggle today
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| Nursing students defended that in order to make the desired evolution feasible, it is necessary to introduce better curricula, carry out community work linked or not to the university with greater appreciation of the Nursing process, and also to seek greater integration with professional organizations. [...] “Our professional training does not match reality and leads us to be submissive to the physician, insecure and accommodating, prejudiced against the male professional, bureaucratic due to work overload, and distant from the patient. [...]”. According to the report, the curriculum of nursing courses does not meet the needs of the future professional, “due to a lack of definition of the professional profile and a disconnection between the baggage acquired in school and the reality of work performed in the community”. (25.07.1981 – pg 3)
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Nurse denounces exploitation of the class
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| The nurse recalled the importance and the social role of the Nurse, which “should not be forgotten by the professionals in the sector, because - she added - besides being a technique, Nursing is also a social practice, but as colleges always emphasize the former, we are in danger of forgetting its social role. (13.10.1981 – pg 3)
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Nursing fights for professional valorization
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Technical Training |
| Although “neither hospitals nor clinics can function without graduate-level nurses”, as the Union of Nursing Professionals, Technicians, Douchers, Massage Therapists, and Hospital and Health House Employees of Salvador, Bahia believes, there is a deficit of properly qualified nursing assistants. The way that the Union finds to remedy this deficiency is the most correct possible: ask the State Education Secretary to promote courses to train these professionals. Such orientation is likely to be extended to a series of other auxiliary activities of professionals and that today are exercised by people who are obliged to go to the University and spend a minimum of four years there to acquire knowledge capable of being taught in much less time in vocational high schools. (12.05.1980 – pg 1)
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Nursing fights for professional valorization
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| According to Maria Ivete de Oliveira - who has already been secretary of Labor and Social Welfare; in the preliminary draft was established a much broader program of training of nursing attendants, stimulating them to do the professionalizing substitution and, “if necessary, to provision those who have conditions and interest in improving the quality of work”. (12.05.1980 – pg 1)
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Nurse defends a new health model
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| On the subject, the data in Bahia are not encouraging, because nursing care is mostly provided by unqualified professionals, favoring the poor quality of the service provided because of cheaper labor. The hospitals prefer to hire attendants, who often don't even have the first degree of schooling and much less the notions of direct care to human lives, than specialized nurses. For this reason, the Nursing Council is fighting to give these people regular training, turning them into nursing assistants. (15.07.1982 – pg 3)
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Nursing: The greatest happiness is when you give a little of yourself
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Professional Qualification |
| In Bahia, the Week of Nursing will implement an extension course with 27 classes, dealing with the “Update in Dynamic Psychiatric Nursing”, taught by professors Stela Sena, from the Federal University of Bahia and Tereza Sena, Head Nurse of the Institute of Psychiatry in Rio de Janeiro. (17.05.1970 – pg 2)
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Nursing fights for professional valorization
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| With the large number of industries working in Bahia, occupational nursing could be of vital importance for the prevention of accidents, but the number of occupational nurses is very small [...] therefore, as part of the Nursing Week, the I Encontro de Enfermagem do Trabalho will take place[...] from this meeting, which will also bring a representative from the Ministry of Labor to Bahia, a course on Occupational Nursing can be scheduled at the UFBA's Nursing School, to facilitate the qualification of these professionals in the area. (12.05.1980 – pg 1)
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Nursing promoted a student meeting
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| [...]was delivered by the vice-president of the Regional Council of Nursing, professor Cirlene Pires, who addressed the central theme of the V Encontro [V Encontro Regional de Estudantes de Enfermagem do Nordeste] “O Perfil do Enfermeiro”, followed by an extensive debate in which almost all the participants took part. Still on the same day, a lecture was given by professor Maristela Menezes Santos, from FEJ, about “Conscience in professional formation” [...]. Continuing [...], a lecture was given on “Absorption of the Labor Market”, by professor Cristina Melo, from UFBA, and at the end a debate under the coordination of professor Stella Barros on the “Acting of the Nurse in the Northeastern reality”. (10.09.1985 – pg 10)
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Debate marks International Women's Day
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| Celebrating International Women's Day, today a debate with the theme “State Constitution, Women and Health” takes place in the auditorium of ABEn-BA, kicking off the promotion Encontro Marcado (Scheduled Meeting). The Scheduled Meeting will have a program always focused on the reality and the current moment, of interest to the category, which will aggregate the professionals around fundamental questions, to be discussed broadly and democratically. The promotion of the ABEn is part of the very dynamics of the association, which is committed to spreading current issues to the great number of professionals that integrate it, inviting them to participat. (07.03.1989 – pg 2)
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World Health Day nurse movement
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| The assembly will be followed by the Scheduled Meeting, in the same place, an opportunity for debate and awareness of the category and that this month will be in charge of the nurse Jorge Lorenzetti, coordinator of the Legislation Commission of ABEn-Nacional and professor of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, who will speak on “Organic Law of the Single Health System”. (03.04.1989 – pg 4)
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