ABSTRACT
This is a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, linked to the project of the Nucleus for the repair of pulmonary ventilators (NRVP). Objective: to report the experiences and reflections of a team of nursing teachers who work in the repair of pulmonary respirators. The reflections contributed to coping with COVID-19, its daily implications. Fostering the creation of a specific training course for the maintenance of hospital equipment is a necessity in force at this time of the pandemic and in the post-pandemic. The strategy developed for the repair and maintenance of pulmonary respirators, in coping with COVID-19 should be configured as a legacy of this period and as a social contribution of those involved in the process. In this way, we can say that the attitude of creating the repair nucleus was constituted as a social action, of volunteering and engagement of the participants that integrate the responses of the teaching and research institutions to the crisis of COVID-19 in Brazil. .