[Brazilian Nursing Association-Ceará Chapter: a journey through history]

In this study, the members of the Brazilian Association of Nursing (ABEn) in Ceará federal state present aspects of the history of this association along its fifty years of work. The information, facts and pictures collected for this study were obtained from documents available in the branch, as well as from semi-structure interviews applied to former presidents of the association. The objective of the interviews was to understand the peculiarities of the experience of these administrators during their participation in the association.