JMIR Publications

ABSTRACT

Background:

Patient safety has been a widely discussed topic with repercussions worldwide and has currently become one of the greatest challenges for health institutions, This concern is heightened when referring to children.

Objective:

To develop a Virtual Learning Environment with the theme of medication administration, as a tool to facilitate the training process of undergraduate nursing students.

Methods:

Descriptive research, methodological development with a quantitative and qualitative approach, using the stages of Design-Based Research as methodological strategies. For the development of the virtual environment, 5 themes were selected: 9 rights of medication administration, medication administration steps, medication administration routes, medication calculation and non-pharmacological actions for pain relief. After its development, the participants were divided into two groups of profiles: expert judges in the field of pediatrics / neonatology for environment validation and undergraduate nursing students for the assessment. For the validation of the VLE by expert judges the Content Validity Index was used and for the evaluation of the students, the Percentage of Agreement was calculated.

Results:

The study included 13 expert judges who positively validated the virtual environment with a total index of 0.97. For the evaluation stage, 26 students participated, who considered the content suitable for nursing students, although some adjustments are necessary.

Conclusions:

The results found in this study show the contribution of the virtual learning environment to the training of nursing students and professional nurses who already work in healthcare, since it has been proven to be an effective educational tool for teaching medication administration in pediatrics and neonatology, and converges with the conjectures of active methodologies.