Kontakt 2009, 11(1):175-177 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2009.032

Specialized education for nurses and midwives involved in community care by e-learningPotřeba rozvoje ošetřovatelské komunitní péče

Sylva Bártlová, Marie Marková

Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích, Zdravotně sociální fakulta, katedra ošetřovatelství

Národní centrum ošetřovatelství a nelékařských zdravotnických oborů, Brno

Based on the international project "E-learning in community care", a special correspondence educational programme is being prepared for nurses and midwives involved in the community care. This project is implemented within the programme Leonardo da Vinci with cooperation of partners from Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and France. The programme prepared will be subjected to pilot testing in groups of 30 nurses and 30 midwives in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Based on the analysis, which was implemented among the above listed countries, it is possible to consider that in these countries the community care is being developed at about the same level and that there are no educational programmes, which could provide effective preparation of staff members in this field. Thus, there is a realistic assumption for mutual combination of the study and subsequent recognition of the specialty in the field of the community care. The project reacts to the absence of educational programmes in the field of providing services aimed at support and maintenance of individual and community health. The target is the possibility to provide the natural combination and interconnection with the module arrangement of the specialized education in the community care and simultaneously to offer a suitable alternative for students, who cannot attend the regular form of the teaching process.
This is the field of healthcare, to which high attention is being paid in a number of advanced countries because of its undoubtedly enormous social importance. Thus, it is necessary to prepare an educational programme for nurses and midwives in a form providing its efficacy and simple admission for everybody. One of possibilities is the implementation of the educational programme by the e-learning form.

Keywords: e-learning; community care; nurses; midwives

Received: October 6, 2008; Accepted: February 5, 2009; Published: May 27, 2009  Show citation