title: The importance of civilian nursing organizations: integrative literature review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to identify and analyze evidence from studies about the importance of civilian nursing organizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  an integrative literature review, for which searches were conducted in the databases LILACS, PubMed/MEDLINE, SciELO, BDENF, and Scopus.
  
  
  RESULTS
  sixteen articles published between the years 2004-2013 were selected, 68.75% of which were sourced from Brazilian journals and 31.25% from American journals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  civilian nursing organizations are important and necessary, because they have collaborated decisively in nursing struggles in favor of the working class and society in general, and these contributions influence different axes of professional performance.
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem e Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil.
authors.forename: James Farley Estevam Dos
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem e Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil.
authors.forename: Regina Maria Dos
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem e Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil.
authors.forename: Laís de Miranda Crispim
authors.initials: Lde M
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.affiliation: Graduação em Enfermagem, Escola de Enfermagem e Farmácia, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lenira Maria Wanderley Santos de
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Almeida
authors.affiliation: Graduação em Enfermagem, Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, Brazil.
authors.forename: Amanda Cavalcante de
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Macêdo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Fundamental, Escola de Enfermagem Anna Nery, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Tânia Cristina Franco
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Santos
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000266:history; D014481:United States