Memory of graduates of the School of Nursing, University of Sao Paulo

This is a study of social-historical approach, contributing to the recovery of memory and identity of the profession of nursing. The objectives of this study were to identify the situations of facilities and/or difficulties towards professional development during the undergraduate course and after insertion in the labor market by alumni EEUSP formed in the de1980/1981. We used the Oral History of Life for data collection and technique of Bardin technique for interpretation and analysis of findings. Seventeen graduated nurses were interviewed: some subjects revealed facilities for professional practice as to have more than a job, autonomy and actuation in different areas of knowledge and of practice. Other research collaborators considered that the difficulties they experienced were related to working conditions, remuneration, working hours, among others aspects. The study provided the continuity of the pioneering work started in the 1970s, in that school, were identified in which the graduates in the period 1946 to 1979, contributing to the recovery of historical memory of nursing.