Historical and social study. Object: emblems and rituals instituted for the School of Nursing Hermantina Beraldo in the period of 1947 the 1950. Objectives: to characterize the School of Nursing Hermantina Beraldo; to enumerate the emblems and rituals used for the School and to comment the implications of the use of these emblems and rituals. The primary sources had been documents written and photographic pertaining to the quantity of the School of Nursing Hermantina Beraldo and to the personal quantity of the teacher Maria Aparecida de Araújo. The secondary sources focus the History of the Brazilian Nursing, History of the School of Nursing Hermantina Beraldo and the History of Brazil. The analysis of the data, made on the basis of relative studies to the thematic one of the study evidenced that the emblems and rituals, of religious and military inspiration, instituted for the School of Nursing Hermantina Beraldo pointed models to be followed, inculcating attributes as hierarchy and disciplines, in order to favored the construction of the identity of the diploma nurse for the School of Nursing Hermantina Beraldo.
History of Nursing; Schools, Nursing; Emblemas and Insignia; Ceremonial Behavior
