Abstract
Objective: To unveil the perception of nursing students about the importance of health education actions in the qualification of care. Methods: This was a Single Integrated Case Study, conducted at the Federal University of Nursing College with nursing undergraduate students from the third and eighth semester of the course. Results: The perception of nursing students about health education varied between the banking and traditional conception with the liberating and participatory. Its importance was crucial to enable the subjects and the community to raise awareness about prevention measures and search for quality of life. Conclusion: The study of this theme becomes of great relevance, because nursing has the role of managing, preventing, promoting, caring and mainly educating, and as a born educator, must know and understand health education and its various methods.