In memoriam – Sister Maria Tereza Notarnicola - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

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In memoriam – Sister Maria Tereza Notarnicola

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 01-01-2017;70(6):1117-1118

DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167.2017700601

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Maria Notarnicola, of Italian descent, was born in São Paulo, where she held her primary and secondary studies. She joined the Company of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in 1937, when she was almost 17 years old, with the name of Sister Maria Tereza. She worked for five years in Catarina Labouré Day Care Center, in São Paulo, being then transferred to Porto Alegre, where her mother superior considered she was very skillful and could be a nurse. Thus, she was sent to Rio de Janeiro, where she graduated in 1947 by the Luiza de Marillac Nursing School of the Pontifical Catholic University, same year in which she took part in the First National Congress of Nursing held in São Paulo. As a nurse, she served in numerous institutions in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, in managerial or supervisory functions().

In 1958, she was assigned to attend the course in Obstetric Nursing at the School of Nurses of São Paulo Hospital (current Federal University of São Paulo – UNIFESP), when she was a student of Mother Marie Domineuc. Then, she became the director of the Department of Nursing and Supervisor of the Obstetric Clinic of the Clinics Hospital at the School of Medicine of Minas Gerais, remaining in office until 1964, when she was transferred to Rio de Janeiro to participate in the Conferência dos Religiosos do Brasil().

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