This study aimed to understanding the meaning attributed by teaching staff throughout the traineeship from nursing under graduation course in intensive care on the teaching and learning process. It's a study of phenomenological qualitative approach. The data were obtained through the following guiding question: "How do you live the teaching-learning process at the ICU traineeship?". From the subjects' descriptions, four open categories came up: "An awakening to ICU", "A searching for how to teaching Nursing in Intensive Care", "A connection between the teaching staff and the students" and "A meaningful experience". This study showed that this living experience, which is shared, permits an approaching and the meeting of the teaching staff with the students in this setting, facilitating the teaching-learning process.
Teaching; Education, nursing; Intensive care units