Introducing the Brazilian Nursing Centre of Memory of the Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem

Abstract

In 84 years of existence of the ABEn, each Board of Directors contributed to the Brazilian Nursing Centre of Memory if it were a reality. According to the statute, the
Centre for Studies and Research in Nursing (CEPEn) is in charge of organizing and
preserving historical documents of the profession. For the selection of materials, the emphasis has been the participation of nursing, during the past eight decades, in the health history. We combine the systematic classification and organization of
the collection according to the timeline of the administration of the Presidents of
the ABEn presented in “Documentario da ABEn – 1926-1976”, with an attempt to
periodization of the history of the organization, dividing it into three periods: 1926 -
194, from creating to the consolidation of the entity; 1947-1972, from the consolidation to the participation movement; 1972-2010, from the participation
movement to the present. It is hoped that with the establishment of the Centre,
researchers concerned with the historical view of the profession could seek and
see that space as a social laboratory of historical research.