ABSTRACT
The student movement is a space for political expression in health, leaving important marks in the construction and implementation of the Unified Health System (SUS). In Nursing courses, these environments are materialized through participation in the Academic Centers and Directories and provide the understanding of factors and problems of the social context that allows the students to know the reality. This study is an experience report, built through the mobilizations provided by the Wanda de Aguiar Horta Academic Center of the Nursing course of the Vale do Acaraú State University in Sobral, Ceará, from 2017 to 2019, addressing the student movement in the sustainability of the SUS. It is noted that the student movement represents a process of mobilization and resistance against the dismantling of the SUS, which is expressed through the exposure and debate of opinions in the fight for the improvement of public health care. In nursing education, as a category with significant participation among the SUS’s employees, these movements aim to create a more politicized and active academic community. Thus, in this reality of attempting to discontinue the SUS, one can perceive the importance of rescuing student protagonism in social struggles with the purpose of contribute to overcoming this retrogressive reality.
KEYWORDS
Unified Health System; Education, Continuing; Nursing