Analysis of the guiding rules of the nurse technician’s practice in Brazil - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

INTRODUCTION

The institutionalization of nursing as a profession is characterized by the division of labor, marked by discipline and hierarchy, with the participation of several active agents, among which we can cite the nurse, the nurse technician, the nursing assistant, and the nursing attendant. The latter, although mentioned in the legislation, has been extinct since the 1990s^(–).

Each of the three professional categories still acting have a specific training process, which requires a separate set of activities. In Brazil, the nurse technician education was defined in the promulgation of law No. 5.692/71, and became part of the Educational System of the country in technical level, being regulated by resolution No. 07/77 of the Brazilian Federal Education Council⁽⁾.

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