Objective: to present the conception of undergraduate nursing students participating in an integrated project on healtheducation on first aid. Methods: qualitative research conducted at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina with five seniornursing students, participating in the project “Nursing in clinical and surgical urgent and emergency care.” We applied semistructuredinterviews with content analysis. Results: the following categories emerged: Health education as a facilitatorfor academic learning; Health education on first aid as a facilitator in the construction of teacher competence in futurenurses; Feelings experienced by students when performing health education on first aid. Conclusion: participating in healtheducation enables the consolidation of the teacher competence of nurses advocated by the National Curriculum Guidelines.