Abstract
Objective: To report the experience obtained by obstetric nursing residents, facing the new reality installed in the care of women in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle, in a maternity hospital, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Experience report: It was produced from the experience of residents of the obstetric nursing program linked to a public university in Amazonas who worked in a reference maternity hospital in the care of women in the pregnancy-puerperal cycle with suspected or confirmed infection by COVID-19 in the period from June 2020 to June 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic imposed readjustments in the care of obstetric nursing residents to women in the postpartum pregnancy cycle assisted in the maternity hospital, difficulties faced by nursing professionals in the care of pregnant and postpartum women with suspicion or confirmation of COVID-19, as well as the improvement of assistance through the new scenario. Final considerations: As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, care protocols for women in the pregnancy and puerperal cycle were modified and adapted, on the understanding that health professionals need to apply updated strategies to provide safe and humanized care to patients admitted to the maternity hospital.