Educational action on the prevention of human papillomavirus and cervical cancer: an experience report

Abstract

Objective: To report the academic experience of nursing interventions facing an educational action in an enrolled population, for the prevention of cervical cancer resulting from infection by the human papilloma virus. Experience report: It was carried out by nursing students from a university center in the format of educational action associated with light technologies. Carried out in a Family Health Strategy waiting room and targeting women in gynecological consultation routines. The educational action was divided into two stages: guidance with the use of a banner and acrylic uterus, and in the second stage the conversation wheel and dynamics with questions and answers. Final considerations: In the health care of female nursing professionals, she plays a leading role in encouraging the continuity of the prevention process and ensuring health promotion as the main tool, through the development of educational actions aimed at controlling the most prevalent diseases and maintaining self-care and of multidimensional consultations, favoring the identification and prevention of the determinants of the population's health-disease process.