title: [Circumstances of the formalization of the nursing assistant course in Brazil: studying between the lines the 775/49 law].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
authors.forename: Regina Maria
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: dos Santos
authors.forename: Maria Cristina S Figueiredo
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Trezza
authors.forename: Zandra Maria Cardoso
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Candiotti
authors.forename: Josete Luzia
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Leite
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009728:Nursing Assistants / Q000193:education*