title: [The nursing schools of the Brazilian Red Cross and the beginnings of professional nursing in Brazil].
abstract: This article discusses the generation of professional nursing in Brazil and the role of Brazilian Red Cross Training School for Nurses, founded in Rio de Janeiro, in 1910. The analysis is based on different sorts of documents such as articles published in medical journals and advertisements published in daily newspapers, nursing manuals, statutes, minutes of meetings. It discusses recurrent crystallized statements presented in the History of Brazilian Nursing, such as the relation between the professionalization of nursing in Brazil to the arrival of the Rockefeller Mission, and the importance attributed to Dona Anna Nery School of Nursing, founded in 1923 in Rio de Janeiro, as the precursor of nursing education in this country.
authors.affiliation: Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: Maria Lúcia
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Mott
authors.forename: Maria Alice
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Tsunechiro
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D012011:Red Cross / Q000266:history*; D012579:Schools, Nursing / Q000266:history*