ABSTRACT
Objective:
to analyze the historical constitution of obstetric nursing in Minas Gerais.
Method:
this is a qualitative, interpretative study, anchored in Michael Foucault’s Genealogy, based on socio-historical research, with an oral thematic history approach and mastery of the history of obstetric nursing. The study was carried out in the state of Minas Gerais. The study covered data referring to professional training and the practical insertion of obstetric nurses from 1957 to 2005. Data collection was carried out from August 2021 to July 2022 with the identification of seven documents and twelve interviews. Data were submitted for analysis.
Results:
three genealogical configurations were created that represent the discourses, practices and events that characterized obstetric nursing of Minas Gerais. The first deals with initiatives for training obstetric nurses in Minas Gerais and ruptures related to space restriction for practical performance. The second addresses the articulation of a nursing school with a philanthropic hospital as an important event for obstetric nursing in Minas Gerais. The third addresses the period of insertion of first obstetric nurses in professional space. Analysis made it possible to identify the historical moment and the forces acting for the emergence of obstetric nursing as well as the conditions of possibility (provenance) involved and events that followed this conformation.
Conclusion:
obstetric nursing from Minas Gerais emerges with the equation of teaching and practice forces from the proliferation and combination of conditions involved in this process.
DESCRIPTORS:
Address; Obstetric Nursing; Obstetric Nurses; Teaching; History of Nursing