O uso da internet x atuação da enfermagem no âmbito hospitalar.

Abstract

Currently, the internet it’s consulted for practically all the daily activities, present in most fields of human activity. In health area, especially, nursing area, it is perceived that many efforts have been developed in the way of combining the use of virtual technologies to qualify the assistance. This study purposed to identify the modalities of the use of the internet by nursing in hospital care. In methodological terms, this is a descriptive qualitative exploratory research, the data were produced from interviews with nurses working in the closed units of a medium-sized hospital. The data showed that the subjects of the study, in general, use the internet to conduct research related to the sector in which they work, to clarify doubts that arise in the daily life, most of which refer to using the information researched in the scope of the work. Given this, it is possible to affirm that the internet has become a facilitating medium for nursing practice.