Abstract

MELO, Carolina Silva Bandeira de; MIRANDA, Rodrigo; CIRINO, Sérgio Dias  and  CAMPOS, Regina Helena de Freitas. Psychology in the education of nurses. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2014, vol.14, n.1, pp. 337-354. ISSN 1808-4281.

We analyze the teaching of psychology in the education of nurses in the first decades of the twentieth century in Brazil. We present aspects related to nursing schools from Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte. Topics presented in the psychology courses in the education of nurses were connected to the psychological debates at that time. During this period, we can see the changing from a training based on working experiences to a new model based on the scientific knowledge. The Brazilian government sponsored this transformation, which was grounded in a broad context of the raising of the worth of sciences in the country. Psychological knowledge contributed for the establishment of a new theoretical and practical nursing training. Analyzing teaching of psychology in the education of nurses contributes to a better understanding of psychology as a discipline in Brazil.

Keywords : psychology; nursing; teaching; historiography.

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