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 semi-structured 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.

Keywords

• Nursing
• Health Education
• First Aid