[Ottillie Hammes: a nursing pioneer in Santa Catarina, Brazil].
This is a socio-historic study that aimed at revealing Ottillie Hammes' professional trajectory, to present some of her biography traces and analyze her contribution for nursing profession in Santa Catarina, Brazil. During the data collection, interviews were made and documentary sources were utilized. Data was categorized according to content analysis and and also according Foucault's approach. The results demonstrated that Ottillie Hammes caused expressive change in Santa Catarina's nursing, due to the Nursing Auxiliaries School funded in Florianópolis; of the Brazilian Nursing Association - Santa Catarina's Section; the creation and the incentive to the approval of the Law that made the nurse's engaging on the scientific - technician category, increasing the development of the profession and improving the assistance provided to the population.
Departamento de Enfermagem, Grupo de Estudos de História do Conhecimento da Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC.
Miriam Süsskind
MS
Borenstein
Maria Itayra
MI
Padilha
Ana Rosete
AR
Maia
Eliani
E
Costa
Vitória Regina Petters
VR
Gregório
Ana Maria Koerich
AM
Espíndola
D001938:Brazil; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century