Construction and validation of an Active Search virtual course for the role of Healthcare-Associated Infection controller.
Infection Control; Epidemiological Monitoring; Hospital Infection Control Program; Learning; Validation Study.
Healthcare-Associated Infections are recognized as complex, multifactorial and encompass all assistance offered to patients in different healthcare scenarios. Health Care-Related Infections present themselves as a global magnitude issue and public health and raise increasing concern among health professionals, administrators of institutions providing care and formulators of public health policies. The Infection Control Service aims to reduce the incidence and severity of infections as much as possible and epidemiological surveillance is the main tool for its activities. The
motivation to develop this study is based on the difficulty mentioned by infection controllers in operationalizing their epidemiological surveillance through active search and the scarcity of studies aimed at supporting their practice. The objective is to build and validate a virtual active search course to instrument the role of infection controllers related to healthcare. This is a methodological study, consisting the Scoping review and content validation stages. This study will be submitted to the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, complying with the recommendations of Resolution No. 466/12, approved by the National Health Council of the Ministry of Health. As stated, the bioethical principles of beneficence, non- maleficence, justice and autonomy.