Title: NURSING TEACHING IN COVID-19 TIMES: HOW TO REINVENT IT IN THIS CONTEXT?
Abstract: 200 years after the birth of Florence Nightingale, the world society lives a moment indicated by epidemiologists as one of the greatest health challenges on a global scale of this century: an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 1In the period in which Brazil is complying with the determinations of social distancing and, when diverse sectors of the economic activity are adjusting to the new measures, it is also imperative to reflect on the impact of this scenario on the educational system, and especially on university education in Nursing.The abrupt interruption of previously planned activities in face-to-face classes, which combine theoretical and practical activities, generates impacts in the short, medium, and long terms for all school levels.Especially, the socioeconomically vulnerable populations will be more affected and among the possible repercussions will be the accentuation of social inequalities for access to essential goods and services like education, among others.School dropout indicators may significantly increase what retro-feeds the aforementioned repercussions. 2 When thinking about face-to-face teaching, the dilemma starts when recognizing students as potential transmitters of the virus, as well as vulnerable to contamination.The teaching models adopted around the world in the COVID-19 pandemic period have at least one feature in common: they were not considered by the academic literature or as Distance Teaching (DT), since there is no material programmed for this modality, nor homeschooling, when the parents start to assume the