Relato de experiência do projeto de extensão: Primeiros Socorros: educando a comunidade e os profissionais de saúde do município de Viçosa-MG e região

Abstract

Health education is the way nurses act as an educator, by capacitating the society to act effectively on first aid assistance to urgent and emergent situations victims. The goal of this research is to report the realized activities by the members of the extension's project: "First Aid: teaching Viçosa's-MG city health professionals, community and region". It is a case report about the members' lived experiences of the extension project during the period of March to October 2018. To do this research we take four organizational reunions, two educative workshops and 10 theoretical-practical capacitation, in which 226 participants from several groups learned. The experience provided an approximation of the academic community with the society of Viçosa and region, socializing the scientific knowledge acquired at the university, and seeking better care in First Aid.