Abstract
Objective:
To develop and validate a distance continuing education course in nursing for wound care in prisons.
Methods:
Descriptive study on the development, configuration and validation of an online course in wound care aimed at health professionals in the prison system performed in three steps. The first step was the search for anteriority to check the existence of courses of wound care aimed at the prison system and prepare the course content based on a wound care protocol and on articles from databases. The second step consisted of setting up the course on the Moodle platform. In the third step, two rounds of the Delphi technique were applied to validate the course, including the consultation of seven invited experts with a minimum qualification of specialists in wound care (stomatherapy) or with at least one year of experience in the area of wound care.
Results:
The wound care course was set up on the Moodle platform with six modules, six exercises and a learning assessment. The course was validated after two rounds of evaluation by the judges with a Content Validity Index of 0.83 in the first round and 0.98 in the second.
Conclusion:
The distance continuing education course in nursing for wound care in prisons called “Online Continuing Education in Wound Care” was developed and validated.
Keywords
Education, Nursing, continuing; Education, distance; Professional training; Wounds and injuries; Prisons
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