Abstract
Spirituality is a subject present in nursing literature since Florence Nightingale. In Brazil, the first scientific publicationappeared in 1947 and is now represented by the Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem [Brazilian Journal of Nursing]. This periodic reflectsthe trends of thinking about nursing in the country, for it publishes the better evaluated works presented in the Congresso Brasileiro deEnfermagem [Brazilian Congress of Nursing], a yearly event of Associacao Brasileira de Enfermagem [Brazilian Association of Nursing]that happens since then. We did a historical survey of Brazilian nursing thought about spirituality from an active search of articlespublished by the said Journal from the decade of 1950 to the year 1999. 57 articles about the subject were found, and classified in 9categories, namely: spirituality as part of the character and morality of the individual that chooses to study nursing; spirituality as aphilosophy of work of nurses; spirituality as part of the curriculum and education of nurses; spirituality in patient assistance as a basichuman necessity; the meaning of spirituality for those who are taken care of (patient/client); the meaning of spirituality for thosewho take care of; spirituality and humanization; spirituality, death and dying; and spirituality according to Ethics and Bioethics. Oneconcluded that the thought of nurses in through these decades passed to variations in number and categories that reflect the evolutionof science and the questions this generates.
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