The work analyzes an experience of forty-three students, from sixty-five, who attend the 5tn semester of graduation in 1982, in a nursing school - USP, Ribeirão Preto, composed by students of the neighborhood, with a precary social-economic level; making assistance of health to the students, through their environment: school, family and community. To avalue the experience of those students, we used a questionnaire with eighteen questions. The analysis of the results shows the great importance to inclue similar programs in the apprenticeship, make the student conscious of the situation, and open fields to the nurse actuation