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The school’s emerge of infirmary in Mexico happened by the necessity to satisfy the demands of attention the patients. The period of foundation was at the beginning of 20  when the reforms of Florence Nightingale were brought. At the beginning nurses studied periods of one to two years and the education method was through clinical practices under the trusteeship and supervision of a graduated  experience nurse. This formation was influenced by the religious tradition, the feminine symbolic inheritance, as well as the military origin of the profession,
that has left as a characteristic, a discipline to obtain productivity in care. Nursing initiated a professionalization process
when titled nurses lay occupied positions that the nuns were leaving empty. Nurses in our country have journeyed by a empirical-theoretical process; that means that nursing arose like a social activity that has been professionalized. The “formal knowledge” that they acquired had two characteristics. First it was the biologicista theoretical approach and the second one talks about to the subjets, contents and times, since the insufficient planning made that each professor-the
majority medical, taught to them what they considered that a nurse had to know. A hundred years after the sprouting of the discipline, it has grown and developed, as much in the actually professional education as, and has looked for the transformation of some histori- th cal-delegated elements, by factors that would center it and becoming its professional and social recognition.