%0 Journal Article %T A enfermagem n£¿o ¨¦ mais uma profiss£¿o submissa %A Andrade %A Andr¨¦ia de Carvalho %J Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem %D 2007 %I Associa??o Brasileira de Enfermagem %R 10.1590/S0034-71672007000100018 %X it's an essay aiming to demystify nursing as a submissive profession. for doing so, a literature review on the profession history following its evolution up to the current practice was made. for some times, nursing and medicine went along in their historic development and nursing was featured in a dependence/ submission picture due to the lack of scientism in its practice. but a lot has changed and for a long time nursing has its practice based on the scientific knowledge, being the care delivery systematization the key of the scientism in the nursing care. %K nursing %K nursing history %K nursing process. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-71672007000100018&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en