DEVELOPING AN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOCUSED ON PALLIATIVE CARE
Health training. Palliative care. Chronic disease. Pediatrics. Healthcare professional. Technology.
In recent years, the creation of public policies, the advancement of medicine, associated with the incorporation of new technologies, the use of increasingly effective treatments, in addition to the development of various pediatric subspecialties, combined with the proliferation of pediatric and neonatal intensive care units , contributed to change the epidemiological profile of the population, with an increase in chronic diseases, a reduction in infant mortality and a decline in acute conditions. In this context, a new approach to care emerges, aimed at assisting patients with diseases that cannot be cured through a new therapeutic concept: Palliative Care. In view of this, the present work aims to develop an educational resource on Palliative Care aimed at professionals and students in the health area and also at civil society, through the Virtual Learning Environment of the Unified Health System. It is an action-research with a qualitative approach, which is characterized by identifying and solving collective problems, through investigation based on a self-reflection of the actors and researchers involved. The research was built in two stages: analysis of the knowledge of nursing professionals about Palliative Care aimed at hospitalized children with chronic conditions carried out in 2020 and the elaboration of a pedagogical design on Palliative Care for health professionals, through the creation of a free course on the AVASUS platform. It was observed that the professionals did not understand the philosophy and objectives of Palliative Care, showing a gap in the training of professionals and emotional fragility in the face of the death process. In this way, the product of this project aims to improve the practices adopted in care, in order to instruct for Palliative Care, as well as to generate improvements in the quality of care as it may bring subsidies to support the planning of its actions and the enrichment scientific.