Conception of undergraduate nursing students on the practice of health education on first aid

Abstract

Objective: to present the conception of undergraduate nursing students participating in an integrated project on health education on first aid. Methods: qualitative research conducted at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina with five senior nursing students, participating in the project “Nursing in clinical and surgical urgent and emergency care.” We applied semistructured interviews with content analysis. Results: the following categories emerged: Health education as a facilitator for academic learning; Health education on first aid as a facilitator in the construction of teacher competence in future nurses; Feelings experienced by students when performing health education on first aid. Conclusion: participating in health education enables the consolidation of the teacher competence of nurses advocated by the National Curriculum Guidelines.