Edumecentro (Jul 2020)
Technology and Nursing Faculty of Villa Clara facing the COVID 19 challenge
Abstract
Background: the epidemiological setting caused by COVID-19 changed the educational teaching process in the Technology and Nursing Faculty. Objective: to describe the educational actions carried out by executives, professors and students from the Technology and Nursing Faculty to deal with COVID-19 at the University of Medical Sciences in Villa Clara. Methods: from March to May 2020, a descriptive study with a qualitative approach, was conducted. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis and induction-deduction; empirical methods: documentary review and interview survey that involves directors, teachers and students. Results: among the educational actions, training related to the new disease, evaluation and accreditation of all staff who would work in the faculty as an isolation facility, prevailed. Others were determined to be put into practice by teachers in the teaching area where the broad-based training process consisting of nine university degrees, technical professional training and short cycle higher education in different technical health specialties, was taken into account. Conclusions: the actions carried out in accordance with resolutions and regulations in force for the teaching learning process in medical sciences in times of epidemiological contingency, in which the extension university service is highlighted as one of its fundamental functions, were possible through this study.
