OBJECTIVES

: Promote a change in the participating students and communities to address the emerging health problem associated with the pandemic through online-education.

METHODS

: Research-action design based on the socio-critical paradigm (based on Habermas Theory of Knowledge). Sample for convenience, 618 nursing students, fourth and fifth year, and 700 people from different communities. In the first stage, students acquire knowledge associated with the new international and national health reality, certified and evaluated. The second stage, transfer of knowledge to the participating communities based on a need felt by them. The strategy is online-education to 6 groups of communities in Santiago, Concepción, and Viña del Mar.

RESULTS

: 97% (780) of students are trained as planned, achieving 100% of learning outcomes. In the second stage, synchronous online-education is carried out by fourth-year students, reaching participation of 90.7% (620) of participants, corresponding to 430 soldiers, 20 gendarmes, 15 persons deprived of liberty, 63 health workers, 52 elderly domestic workers, and 40 municipal workers. In the technical field, new personal protection measures are implemented in the communities; in the practical part, they are taught the correct procedure for handwashing, and from the emancipatory point of view, they return knowledge through questions and answers. Participants report an acceptance level of this activity equal to 96%.

CONCLUSIONS

: The new pandemic scenario generates the need to continue the teaching-learning process at the university level. The social role of nursing motivates linking with the environment to respond to the needs of the community. The reality of student learning is reconstructed, responding to a need for the new social context associated with the pandemic, with a high degree of satisfaction from the participants.