This work presents a nursing extension project about the control of cross infection development in a school hospital. It has as purposes the interaction between education-studies-extension and the integration between university and community. It is a report of an experience starting from the theoretical basis which fomented the elaboration of the proposal, followed by the description of extensionist action's purposes and its agents, the scenery of practice, the operation stages, the project evaluation system which indicates its methodological components and the proposal's financing. The results in this initial phase of the project's development point to the necessity to advance and innovate the activities of nursing continuous action on the nosocomial infections' vigilance. Thus, this integrator and interdisciplinary experience had contributed to the formation of future nursing professionals, opened communication channels for a reciprocal improvement and narrowed the relations between academic work and health assistance.
Cross Infection; Infection Control; Interprofessional Relations; Nursing
