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- Title
Projeto HOPE: atuação de enfermeiras norte-americanas no Brasil (1973).
- Authors
de Miranda Crispim Costa, Laís; Franco Santos, Tânia Cristina; Otávio Ferreira, Luiz; de Almeida Filho, Antônio José; dos Santos, Regina Maria; Lázaro Alcántara, Elaine
- Abstract
Objective: to describe the reality of nurses of Project HOPE and discuss the repercussion of their performance in relation to the reconfiguration of nursing in Alagoas State. Method: social-historical study, whose primary sources were documents filed in the Laboratory of Documentation and Research in History of Nursing, granted by this project; oral testimonies resulting from the transcription of interviews of US nurses and the VeNeta Masson's'logbook, coordinator nurse of the ship. The discussion of the data was based on Pierre Bourdieu's theory. The project was submitted to the Ethics Committee and approved by it. Results: The actions of the American nurses exposed the shortage of this type of professional in the area, as well as the precarious health conditions in the region. Conclusion: the symbolic capital of these nurses has contributed to the reconfiguration of the nursing field in Alagoas State.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; UNITED States; AUTONOMY (Psychology); NURSES' attitudes; HISTORY of nursing; NURSING career counseling; ORAL history; PROFESSIONS; VOLUNTEERS; THEMATIC analysis; EVALUATION of human services programs; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018, Vol 71, Issue 4, p2071
- ISSN
0034-7167
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0432