Performance of an women’s health care academic league during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Objective: Report the experience of an Academic League for Women's Health Care during 2020, presenting the difficulties and facilities found in the face of remote activities. Experience report: The Academic League studied, belonging to an undergraduate course in Nursing at a Brazilian public university and throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, needed to adapt to the new model of activities. In this period, there was a change from face-to-face teaching to remote teaching with the use of digital platforms and social networks, which provided facilities and difficulties for the performance of activities. This resulted in the reach of a wider and more varied public, allowing to meet the precepts that must be followed by an Academic League, however, access to activities depended on a higher level of concentration and an environment conducive to this, available internet and electronic devices, the that may have hampered the League's performance. Final considerations: The performance of the Academic League proved to be a challenging but successful experience, made possible by the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies and using of the platforms that allowed to keep the developed activities active and reach spaces that were not previously possible.