[Brazilian Nursing Association, Sergipe section: 52 years of will, claw, and heart].

This is a contribution for the history of nursing from Sergipe and, as a consequence, for the Brazilian Nursing. It aims at rescuing the Brazilian Nursing Association, Sergipe's Section history and to document the accomplishment of this entity into the scientific, cultural and political scenery. A qualitative research, whose data were collected by means of oral and official history registered on books, journals, and other documents. Data were submitted to content analysis. That history is presented by some characters from this plot, indicating that present may be an answer from the past because it contains the writing of the history founded by its actor's will. It was concluded that rethinking Brazilian Nursing Association, Sergipe's Section history is rethinking our own capability of interaction with the category.