Context:

In the 19th century, we witnessed hospital modernization, the affirmation of medical science, and the exponential development of nurses’ activities.

Objective:

To know the activity of nurses in the Nightingale century.

Methodology:

Historical with analysis and explanation of a past accessed through the examination of its marks and mental representation. Considering not a simple narrative, but a description, as much as possible explanatory.

Results:

Transformation throughout the century, of the activity of nurses, visible in the space conquered in hospital structures, in the creation of teaching, in a slow movement towards full professionalization.

Conclusion:

In the Nightingale century, a continuation of professionalization and disciplinary knowledge, which is the origin of nursing as a profession and knowledge discipline.

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