Groups of voluntary or professional artists have been formed in order to visit patients in hospitals around the world, as clowns, using humor as a tool to promote the care and recovery process. There are few studies on this topic in the scientific literature. Thus, construction of a theoretical field that is able to support this activity is only just beginning. Therefore, we conducted a bibliographic review based on 33 papers about different clown groups acting in different hospitals worldwide, in order to better comprehend how these visits take place and how they can effectively achieve good results. It was observed that these encounters can establish deep relationships that are capable of creating new meanings for the hospital environment, empowering patients and serving as a relationship model for all the healthcare staff involved.

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The cooperative community of network application corresponds to practices that increase or compromise and involve two students; therefore, we developed, with this study, a methodology for the creation of working groups from two reports of representatives of the investigated groups. In this sense, the methodological procedures adopted were: descriptive and exploratory research, case study, experience report, documentary, and bibliographic research, with the nature of two qualitative data, derived from the survey with the representatives of the classes of the Technical course in Administration, integrated modality year High School, from Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Baiano – IF Baiano, Teixeira de Freitas – Bahia campus, federal public institution, about or development of non-classroom pedagogical activities. From the results obtained, it is accepted that these activities are divided into synchronous and asynchronous rooms, and that is still in the adaptation phase; also through the experience report suggested to improve communication, the increase in feedback from teachers to students of activities and from students to management on the development of APNPs and difficulties encountered, to promote their effective improvement.