title: Nursing throughout war times: political propaganda and professional valorization (1942-1945).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to discuss the symbolic effects of the publication on written press of institutional rites related to the courses promoted by the Brazilian Federal District's Schools of Nursing during the Second World War.
  
  
  METHODS
  exploratory and documentary study, whose sources were treated by historical method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  one noticed, in the news reports analyzed, that the Brazilian Estado Novo has used nurses images to divulge within the society the woman's acting altruistic model in service to the country, through the systematic diffusion by the press of her honorable acting during the war, what assured the amplification of the visibility and acknowledgment of the Nursing profession in that context.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the diffusion by press of emergency nurses graduations magnified their apparition in public spaces, occasion on which the institutional rite was strategically used to transmit to the society the urgency of the new profession, in order to support the political causes in vigor in the country.
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thais da Silva
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Kneodler
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Graciele Oroski
authors.initials: GO
authors.lastname: Paes
authors.affiliation: Alfredo Pinto School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Fernando Rocha
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Porto
authors.affiliation: Alfredo Pinto School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Pedro Ruiz Barbosa
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Nassar
authors.affiliation: Postgraduate Program in Nursing, Anna Nery School of Nursing, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
authors.forename: Alexandre Barbosa de
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Oliveira
mesh_terms: D005783:Gender Identity; D006676:History of Nursing; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000592:standards*; D011406:Propaganda; D012011:Red Cross / Q000458:organization & administration; D014857:Warfare; D047789:World War II