A historical biographical research that presents nurse Anna Jaguaribe da Silva Nava´s life path (1910-2005). During the period in which her life elapsed, the national panorama changed radically for many times. Her performance as Escola Anna Nery´s professor took place from 1940 to 1977. The text was built over the protagonist´s own oral report, given in 2003 and donated by herself to the Documentation Center of Anna Nery Nursing School. The present work focuses mainly at the intertwinement of this character´s life story with the management of three EAN´s directors, beginning from the time Escola Anna Nery was the official standard in the country for nursing teaching until when the Law775/49 was in force.
Nursing; Nursing History; Biography; Brazil