[The nurse educator: an experience among immigrants from developing countries]

Immigration from developing countries to Italy is a recent fact; however, it is causing different problems, even to health. Among these, tuberculosis holds a position of prominence; it is usually endemic in its original countries, but it finds good condition to become acute again in the discomfort and poverty of home countries. The purpose of the work is to test and confirm the promoting and defensive function of health in nursing profession, thanks to a health education project for immigrants which aims at reducing tuberculosis presence. The instrument used is a lesson about tuberculosis characteristics which the proposal to make the tubercular test, right instrument for a precocious diagnosis. The positive results achieved, show us the right evidence that the nurse is an educator: immigrants have also been offered the possibility to defend their health.