ABEn strengthening the chains and buiding the future.

Since its creation in 1926, the Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn) is dedicated to the development of Brazilian Nursing. And since 1986, is defending the profession as a social practice with insertion in social movements that are compromised with life, democracy and citizenship. We understand the need for continuing this process and mobilize all the category to face current challenges in a complex, dynamic and uneven society. The elected board members for the period of 2007-2010 is presented to Brazilian Nursing with courage in preserving the tradition of ABEn, and to articulate new action strategies for the recognition and visibility of the profession both in the social national and international context. It is needed to keep on strengthening the chains and to build new ones, fighting with the users and allied workers of the National Health System for their rights, valuing for political enhancing and re-affirming the need of an associative life. We must evoke the participation, to pluck up courage for the defense of nursing spaces, to dare in the empowerment of an alliance with the users and in the solidification of a relation of respect with other professionals, managers, health system’s authorities and with parliament members as well as with justice ones. This is our commitments: