PHOTOGRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY OF DR. WANDA DE AGUIAR HORTA

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Objective: To narrate the professional life trajectory, through photography, of Wanda de Aguiar Horta. Methods: Study with a historical and biographical approach. The sources were five photographs, poems and speech of her. Data were collected in 2022 and 2023, in her collection of the Historic-Cultural Center Ibero-American Nursing. The analysis followed Boris Kossoy’s Method of Construction and Disassembly of the Photographic Image. Results: Her professional career is marked by struggles, achievements and a double degree in Nursing and Natural History. She was a scholarship student at EEUSP, class of 1948. As an assistant nurse, she worked in hospitals in São Paulo and Curitiba. She worked in private and public educational institutions and reached the top of her academic career by becoming a Full Professor at EEUSP. She created the Magazine Nursing in New Dimensions, published the book Nursing Process and elaborated the Theory of Basic Human Needs. Conclusion: Wanda Horta is a remarkable personality in the history of Brazilian Nursing, with national and international emphasis. Until today, heir’s concepts are used to give new meanings to human care in assistance, teaching and research.

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