AÇÃO EDUCATIVA SOBRE HANSENÍASE E TUBERCULOSE NA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE: RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA

Objective: To report the experience of nursing students about the implementation of an educational health action on leprosy and tuberculosis for professionals in Primary Health Care. Summary of the data: This is a descriptive study, of the experience report type, which describes an educational health action carried out by nursing students with professionals in primary health care, carried out in June 2019. To carry out this activity, there were three steps, these being: 1) Thematic proposal with the Family Health Strategy Team, 2) Activity planning and construction of teaching strategies, and 3) Execution and evaluation. An illustrative mural and an educational folder were used as didactic resources to obtain better results in the outcome of the activity. The content of the educational action included: definition, etiologic agents, transmission, signs and symptoms, treatment and notification. It is inferred that educational actions developed within the scope of the curricular internship in nursing, contribute to the development of competencies and skills required by the nurse's care praxis, among these, in-service education. In addition, these actions reinforce the dynamic nature of constant updating that health teams must have in order to act together in the identification and prevention of injuries to populations. Conclusion: Through this experience, it was possible for nursing students to understand the complexity of the nurse's performance in the scope of the Family health strategy, having as one of its main attributions to promote health education.