[Memories and history for a new view of nursing in Brazil]

This study aims at evidencing the involvement of the historic knowledge to nursing, regarding to development of a critical conscience and new ways of perception and appreciation of the profession. Authors emphasize the potential of the subject to integrate teaching and research as well as to articulate the undergraduate and graduate programmes and in the consolidation of a research line of brazilian nursing history (HEB), demanding the preservation in the whole country of data sources, and the interchange between HEB researchers and historians who have interests on studies like this.