Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing E-ISSN: 1676-4285 [email protected] Universidade Federal Fluminense Brasil de Abreu Moniz, Marcela; Manhães Pereira, Jaqueline; Simão Marques, Thamires An Evaluation of the use of Educational Technology, the “Health-Environment Integrated Panel” in nursing education: a descriptive study Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing, vol. 15, núm. 3, 2016, pp. 466-471 Universidade Federal Fluminense Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=361453978014 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative ISSN: 1676-4285 An Evaluation of the use of Educational Technology, the “Health- Environment Integrated Panel” in nursing education: a descriptive study Marcela de Abreu Moniz1, Jaqueline Manhães Pereira1, Thamires Simão Marques2 1 Federal Fluminense University 2 City Hall of Rio de Janeiro ABSTRACT Aim: To evaluate the use of educational technology, the “Health-Environment Integrated Panel” with nursing graduates. Method: This is a descriptive, evaluative research, of a qualitative approach, conducted through a questionnaire with 18 nursing students of Rio das Ostras campus, of the Federal Fluminense University in May 2015. The data received analytical treatment that included exploration, organization and interpretive synthesis. Results: The results show the usability of technology and good ability to generate reflection, interaction and motivation for learning about the dynamics of the health-disease process resulting from socioenvironmental changes in the territory, and the ethical and political attitudes of nurses front these issues. Discussion: With the use of educational technology in this scenario, it was possible to implement a creative and stimulating practice of teaching, which involved action-reflection on various aspects of observed reality, favoring significant learning on the health-environment relationship in the training space of nurses. Conclusion: We suggest adjustments and validation of the aforementioned technology. Descriptors: Educational Technology; Environmental Health; Students, Nursing. Moniz MA, Pereira JM, Marques TS. An Evaluation of the use of Educational Technology, the “Health-Environment Integrated 466 Panel” in nursing education: a descriptive study. Online braz j nurs [internet] 2016 Sept [cited year month day]; 15 (3):466-471. Available from: http://www.objnursing.uff.br/index.php/nursing/article/view/5421 INTRODUCTION Based on this, our study is relevant regar- ding the contribution to changes in educational The literature on the use of educational practices that result in student empowerment technologies in the training area in nursing for action in education and nursing care, in discusses their applicability in various situa- line with an ecological ideal, of dignity, justice tions involving teachers, monitors, and nursing and social commitment and ethics in health students(1). promotion. The objective of this study is to In the nursing education area, proponents evaluate the use of educational technology have considered educational technology as a set “Health-Environment Integrated Panel” with of mediators devices of the teaching-learning nursing students. process that must contain a logical organization, so that they can be systematically planned, ob- served, understood and transmitted. In addition, METHOD the technology, while material, should also be recognized as an important component in the It is evaluative, descriptive research with educational work, and should be seen as a fa- a qualitative approach. The evaluation of an cilitator, which together with other strategies, action or educational process is understood as make the most complete educational system an integrated methodology to the dynamics of in its planning and execution. Thus, educational this process, which allows us to obtain useful in- technology can be characterized as a process or formation to judge it. In this study, an evaluation product(2). of environmental health education technology However, educational technologies have was based on a dialogical and dialectic perspec- been used many times without proper syste- tive(7), implying that the understanding of the matization and evaluation(1). In the Brazilian difficulties of the students may come from the scenario on environmental health education perception and participation by those involved. in nurse training, no studies were found that The technique used was a self-report ques- use and evaluate educational technologies in tionnaire, which was developed based on the socioenvironmental teaching practices. study of Sabóia et al(8). The study participants Environmental education becomes an were 18 students enrolled in courses of the important nurse’s working instrument in the last semester of the second year of the nursing contemporary socioenvironmental problems undergraduate course at the Institute for Huma- and their impact on public health(3,4). Thus, there nities and Health, Rio das Ostras Campus/UFF, are increasing demands for nurse training with who participated in the use of this technology specific skills aimed at education, coping and risk in May 2015. management in environmental health(5). The technology, called the “Health-Environ- Following this line of thought, it is consi- ment Integrated Panel” represents a proposal dered that educational technology can be used for an active methodology of teaching and for knowledge and reflection of the complexity learning about the resonance of socioenviron- of anthropogenic environmental problems, mental changes in the health-disease process seeking to instill in students a broad and critical in a territory. understanding of environmental interrelations The methodological steps of the applica- with man, and its effects to human health(6). tion of technology are described below. Moniz MA, Pereira JM, Marques TS. An Evaluation of the use of Educational Technology, the “Health-Environment Integrated Panel” in nursing education: a descriptive study. Online braz j nurs [internet] 2016 Sept [cited year month day]; 15 (3):466-471. 467 Available from: http://www.objnursing.uff.br/index.php/nursing/article/view/5421 At first, the participants visited a territory The research project was approved by the that had experienced profound changes and Ethics Committee in Research at the Univer- socioenvironmental conflicts, as well as an ex- sity Hospital Antonio Pedro of UFF, under n ° pansion of health risks to communities arising 1,585,527. from the process of building the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro (COMPERJ)(9). This scenario was the municipality of Itaboraí, one RESULTS of the poorest areas of the metropolitan region of the state of Rio de Janeiro, with a human de- The sample of subjects was composed of velopment index of 0.693 (9). 18 nursing students aged between 19-38 years, In a second step, the contextualization of being 16 females and two males. reality was portrayed in the classroom environ- The technology has been well evaluated by ment by participants and researchers. Therefore, the students, since 13 participants attributed the educational technology was developed from the “good” concept to it and five attributed the term construction of an integrated panel with pictures “regular”. Some limitations, which were identi- and descriptions of problem situations, which fied by the students, referred to the distance tra- were encountered during the visit carried out veled, the university vehicle, and the restriction with students in the surrounding areas of COM- on access roads to the place of the enterprise PERJ so that participants could relate them to construction during the visit to the field. the environmental and health impacts observed Among the positive aspects pointed out in the field. by all students on the usability of educational At the end of the meeting, the participants technology included: the relevance of techno- who agreed to participate in the study signed logy to stimulate interest, reflection and student the Informed Consent and completed the ques- participation in a relaxed way, allowing the use tionnaire of assessment of the technology, which of existing knowledge and the clarification of contained the following questions: Between questions of students; the opening space for very good, good, fair, poor and without opinion, the apprehension of new knowledge about the which concept would you give to educational socioenvironmental issues addressed; refer to technology? Did the technology favor reflection? other colleagues to participate in the technolo- Were the issues of interest to you? Did you feel gy; and the suggestion to reproduce it at another at ease during the group? Would you indicate to times in the academic education of nurses. other colleagues to participate in the same kind The data showed that the Health-Environ- of educational technology? What did you most ment Integrated Panel enabled the expression like about the activity? What did you like least of the students, on their own terms, of points about the activity? Suggestions. of view, beliefs, attitudes and representations, For the data analysis, an analytical inter- as well as exchanges of ideas, values and expe- pretation strategy was adopted(10), fulfilling riences, based on field observation, photos and the steps of: comprehensive