Brazilian Academy of Specialists in Nursing – ABESE – the construction of a empowering space (2000–2001)

Abstract

The object of this study is the process of creation of the Brazilian Academy of Specialists in Nursing - ABESE, established in 2000, in the city of São Paulo, that, in my vision, has in its process of generation, organization and implementation, the realization of a process of specialization occurred in Medical Sciences, and reflected in the Nursing. To identify the circumstances of creation of the ABESE, and to examine its (s) meaning (s), beyond inside arguing the future perspectives of the Nursing’s process of to be professional, had been the objectives of the study. This had as theoretical background, the multiple references, and as methodology, the historical research. The concepts of Pierre Bourdieu on habitus, capital and symbolic power added to the thought of Michel Foucault on the value of the speech, had been selected and applied to the study, that concludes that the specialization process for which the nursing passed, it points with respect to a update of habitus of the nurse, which will be based on one practical one dominated for the technology. When studying it, I observed thatthe Nursing, represented for the ABESE, assays the first steps to obtain the same resulted that Medical Sciences had gotten in what it mentions to the positive consequences on the social recognition and criterion of ability. Strong representative of an effective politician-economic paradigm, the state of São Paulo stimulates changes in the practical professional, and being thus, the ABESE, while organization form politics is an affirmation strategy and legitimation of a group that it searches to produce value social is of the traditional models of legitimation, centered in the academy. From concrete actions of the ABESE, I contested the trajectory of the movement of valuation of the specialized Nursing, been born, not by chance, in this state. The reflection on the trajectories of the societies of specialists, indicated that above of the splits or agreements had in the history of the Nursing, most important it is the next step to be given, for greatest and better conquests. The History of the Nursing is made of pioneering pioneers and.