APPLICATION PROTOTYPE FOR MANAGING EDUCATIONAL ACTIONS IN NURSING
Nursing Education. Management. Technology. Low code platform.
The objective of this study is to develop an application prototype for the management of educational activities aimed at nursing professionals using a low code platform, specifically the Microsoft 365 Power Apps®, in order to organize and systematize the information generated by the actions of permanent education and optimizing the work process of professionals who work with educational activities.The present study is being carried out in a Federal University Hospital of Paraná, in the Permanent Education Committee in Nursing, through a methodological research that will follow the following steps: delineation of the research theme, definition of objectives, construction of knowledge and definition of the strategy methodology, elaboration of the database (lists), construction of the prototype and tests. It was based on the User-Centered Design Model, which places the user and their needs at the center of all decisions in creation, and is characterized by four stages that are defined as observation/research, design, prototype and test. The lists that make up the database integrated in Power BI® were created, a proposal for the application's homepage built in SharePoint® and the prototype developed in Power Apps®. The study made it possible to develop a prototype for managing educational actions aimed at the nursing team and its use can be expanded to continuing education services in nursing and to the Personnel Development Units that are part of the EBSERH network. With the possibility of managing this information through the application, in addition to modernizing the way of doing it, it optimizes the work process of professionals who work with educational activities. The management of training costs can guide decision-making, when analyzed in conjunction with other care indicators. It is important to emphasize the importance of specialists in the development of software, which would have been carried out more quickly as stated in the proposal to use low code platforms. However, the proposal was really to use the technological tools available to everyone who works in the university hospitals of the EBSERH network. The construction of the prototype, by the professional nurse, was a challenging and positive experience in professional and personal development, bringing new technologies to the work routine.