2024/09/17 by Luiz Otávio Ferreira, Ricardo dos Santos Batista · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Health Professions · #Health, Nursing, Elderly Care #History of Medicine and Tropical Health
paper · doi:10.11606/issn.2316-9141.rh.2020.221159
openalex publication_date 2024/09/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
This article analyzes part of the professional trajectory of nurse and sociologist Haydée Guanais Dourado, from her training as a primary school teacher [normalista] at Instituto Ponte Nova (Bahia, Brazil) to her joining the group of nurses at the School of Nursing at the University of São Paulo. The study is possible by recreating the contexts in which she lived and is inseparable from understanding the social characteristics of the group in which she participated, that of qualified nurses. HGD’s trajectory oscillates between similarities and singularities in relation to the professional group. The investigation uses a reduction in the scale of analysis and an intensive study of the material analyzed. Throughout HGD’s trajectory, it is concluded that a large part of Brazilian registered nurses worked in public health institutions or hospitals and a few others became intellectuals who planned higher education in nursing and reflected on the destiny of the profession.