In 1996, a group of professors of the areas of Immunology, Histology, Nutrition, Pathology and Foundations of Nursing, began the Educational Project with the Support Program to Integrated Projects of Education and Health Services (PAPIENS), in the Nursing graduation course of the State University of Londrina. This Program is inserted in the project UNI subsidized by the Kellogg Foundation, which has propitiated innovations in the teaching-learning process, as well as changes in the curriculum of courses in the health area of the university mentioned before. This project has as its linking content the subject wounds. The main objective is to propitiate to students the construction of knowledge, regarding this theme, through the articulation and integration of the different areas involved, as well as through the observation of patients who carry wounds. It was observed that the project has facilitated student's learning and also prepared teachers for the challenge of the Nursing Integrated Curriculum to be implemented in the year 2000.
nursing interdisciplinary integration; wounds; integrated nursing education