[Circumstances of the formalization of the nursing assistant course in Brazil: studying between the lines the 775/49 law].
The objective of this study is to discuss the circunstances that determined the incorporation of nursing assistant course at the law number 775/49. Thus we tried to understand the brasilian scene and the politics of hospital health during the period of president Dutra's government and the hospital conditions at that time. The laws and edicts about nursing between 1945 and 1949 are fundamental sources, documents from CD/EEAN/UFRJ and nurses deposition about this question. The first documents analised showed nursin staff insufficiency and the conflict between nurses wish to maintain a high level education and the responsability to supply the demand of nursing personal. The law officialized a course what informaly already existed.
dos Santos
Regina Maria
RM
Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
Trezza
Maria Cristina S Figueiredo
MC
Candiotti
Zandra Maria Cardoso
ZM
Leite
Josete Luzia
JL
D001938:Brazil; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000193:education*