Raising Awareness about Continuing Health Education with Nursing Professionals: Strategic Action Research

to analyze the contributions of an awareness-raising workshop to nursing professionals' knowledge about continuing health education.

strategic action research, developed with 25 nursing professionals from a private hospital, located in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Data were collected between January and August 2024, using a questionnaire with open questions, before and after an awareness-raising workshop. A data discursive textual analysis was performed.

the central category "Understanding about continuing health education" emerged, unitized in five categories of analysis that dealt with the (lack of) knowledge about continuing health education and the Continuing Health Education Center, a scenario that changed after awareness raising.

it was revealed that there was a lack of knowledge or superficiality about the topic before the awareness-raising sessions. Afterwards, it was possible to identify the expansion of knowledge, both in its conceptual and functional aspects. Awareness-raising workshops contribute to transformation of knowledge.