Educação permanente como estratégia de enfrentamento da pandemia da Covid-19: um olhar sobre a literatura

Abstract

The Covid-19 presented significative challenges for professionals of every area, especially the ones in healthcare. When it comes to nursing, the front-line against the pandemic, the permanent education emerged as a crucial strategy for this battle, aiming to enhance the knowledge, the abilities and attitude of the professionals of the area and to facilitate such a delicate moment. This is integrative review study aiming to analyze the strategies of permanent education to the nursing professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic. For such, a search in the databases of Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, PubMed® and SciELO was made, in the period from 2019 to 2022. We selected studies about qualification of nursing professionals in pandemic context. We found that the permanent education played a fundamental part in the preparation and strengthening of nursing professionals to face the challenges imposed by the pandemic, seeing that strategies that contributed for the development of technical and behavioral competences, as well for the continuous update of scientific knowledge and the acting before the Covid-19 pandemic, were used. Besides, the permanent education showed positive impact in patient security, quality of care and welfare of nursing professionals. Through continuous learning, the nurses could get the necessary abilities to deal with complex situations, manage stress and making assertive decisions. Therefore, the permanent education showed itself as an essential strategy facing the Covid-19 pandemic, providing the professional improvement, update of knowledge and strengthening of nursing professional abilities. To better its effectiveness and facilitate the accession of qualification of these professionals, the development of political acts and proper resources, as well as the promotion of partnerships between health, education and research institutions, is fundamental.