O Movimento Participação e as reformas do Estatuto da Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem (1986/1988)

Abstract

Research was object the implications of the Movement Participation's culture in for the design of the Brazilian Nursing Association and in reforms of the Statute of the entity occurred in 1986 and 1988. The Participation was a civil movement of Brazilian Nursing Association, which is governed by its own statutes. The research aimed to describe the design of Association in the light of the Statute 1976 and the Movement Participation's culture; analyze the implications of the Movement Participation's culture in the reforms of Statute of the entity occurrred in 1986 and 1988 and discuss the relationship between these reforms and the design of the entity in the light of the Movement's culture. Qualitative study, historical and social; adopted the time frame from 1983 to 1988, being the starting point the creation of Participation slate to run in the entity's elections and the end of the year the last statutory modification promoted the first Central Board elected by the Movement; primary sources were the statutes of Association, documents about the statutory reforms and explain the Movement's culture and transcripts of interviews conducted with nurses of Movement's using the Thematic Oral History and semistructured interview. Research approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Alagoas, Opinion No. 510,539. Sources subjected to internal and external analysis, information analyzed in the light of the thought of Antonio Gramsci about Cultural Hegemony. Results revealed that the statutory changes promoted by participation sought to meet the demands of universal class and attributed to documentary writing the principles of combativeness and resistance in the purposes of the Association and of democracy, participation and representation in its operation and deliberative and executive structure. It was concluded that the culture of Participation was placed in a position of counter-hegemony to the design of situationist associations, giving the new entity guidelines that were made official in statutory format in 1986 and 1988.