DEVELOPMENT OF A COURSE MEDIATED BY TECHNOLOGY IN NURSING ATTENTION TO PATIENTS CANDIDATES FOR LIVER TRANSPLANT
Liver transplant. Nursing care. Distance education.
State of the art: Liver transplant is one of the most complexes procedures for modern surgery. Therefore, its success depends on a complete hospital infrastructure, and a trained multidisciplinary team. Technology-mediated education becomes an ally on training and improvement of quality of services. Problem: How can the production of courses mediated by technology act on training professionals and improvement of quality in liver transplantation? Objective: Develop a technology-mediated course in nursing care for patients who are candidates for liver transplantation. Methodology: This is an action research. The location of research was, as an initial step, data collection in a tertiary reference service, the University Hospital of the state of Paraná through interviews at its specialized sector, providing data for elaboration of an educational module. Results and Discussion: A self-instructional course was created for AVASUS platform. This educational module, with 30 hours long, was divided into four distinct units that complement each other, the same with classes of two to four, with updated content covering the care related to patients who are candidates for liver transplant focusing on pre and post surgical routines, discharge hospital and outpatient follow-up. The course is aimed at all health professionals, of medium or higher level, especially the nursing team. Conclusion: The module “Nursing care in patients who are candidates for liver transplant” aims to update health professionals regarding the management of within the hospital context, as well as an adequate constructive link for discharge and home and outpatient follow-up, making it available on AVASUS platform will positively impact the dissemination of knowledge.