title: [Teaching in undergraduate nursing: the contribution of Brazilian Nursing Association].
abstract: The present study shows some of the most relevant actions of the Brazilian Association of Nursing in favor of the education process of the nursing professionals in Brazil, contextualizing those actions in the historical moment in which they occurred. In this manner, the study represents not only production of knowledge in the field, but also an element of record of the history of undergraduate nursing teaching in Brazil, offering instruments of analysis of the current situation of this teaching. The text highlights the contributions of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn) in the education process of the nursing professionals, and in the elaboration and sustainability of the National Curricular Guidelines of the Undergraduate Nursing Course.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade Católica Rainha do Sertão, Quixadá. euclea@terra.com.br
authors.forename: Eucléa Gomes
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Vale
authors.forename: Josicelia Dumêt
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Fernandes
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000266:history*; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000266:history*