RESUMO
The COVID-19 pandemic requires an urgent action to transform health-care delivery and to promote research and capacity-building nursing programs. Specifically, many countries at the global level have described nursing informatics as an essential competence for nurse professionals. In Peru, nursing personnel represents the largest health workforce group and nursing informatics is still emerging, but the field appear to hold much promise. In this sense, the Peruvian Ministry of Health (MoH) defined in 2020 the core nursing competences, which included a technology and innovation domain. The competence established to apply scientifically based technology and innovation to improve the processes or health service resources. The minimum competencies established by the MoH were as follows: to carry out innovations in processes or resources in their different professional performance areas, to creatively adapt technology in different areas of professional performance, to make rational and ethical use of health technologies with focus on new developments that will be evaluated and applied critically, and to manage information and communication technologies, and health information systems, with emphasis on telehealth (i.e. telemedicine, telecare management, tele-education, and tele-training). Besides the nursing competences defined by the MoH is a good starting point, this special contribution discusses the urgent need to strengthen nursing informatics competencies in Peru.
Assuntos
COVID-19/epidemiologia , Enfermagem Baseada em Evidências/organização & administração , Informática em Enfermagem/organização & administração , Competência Profissional/normas , COVID-19/enfermagem , Humanos , Informática Médica/organização & administração , PeruRESUMO
RESUMEN Las emergencias en salud pública como la pandemia del COVID-19 podrían llevar a situaciones de estrés extremo, ansiedad y depresión en mujeres en etapa perinatal. La depresión perinatal puede ocasionar a la madre, al recién nacido y al entorno familiar múltiples consecuencias negativas. Las redes sociales, bien utilizadas, pueden constituir una herramienta valiosa de apoyo para las mujeres en esta etapa de su vida. Este artículo describe el rol de las redes sociales en Internet como soporte de las gestantes y madres con depresión, particularmente en emergencias de salud pública a nivel mundial como la pandemia del COVID-19. Las redes sociales pueden contribuir a la salud y al bienestar al facilitar la interacción social, construir comunidades, normalizar el comportamiento de búsqueda de ayuda, inspirar cambios saludables en el estilo de vida y ayudar a la investigación médica. Es fundamental educar adecuadamente a las mujeres en etapa perinatal en alfabetización digital en salud que incluya el uso eficiente de las redes en Internet como soporte socioemocional y la evaluación de la calidad de información que se encuentra en las redes sociales y en Internet para una adecuada toma de decisiones.
ABSTRACT Public health emergencies such as COVID-19 pandemic could lead to situations of extreme stress, anxiety and depression in women in the perinatal period. Perinatal depression may lead to multiple negative consequences for mothers, newborns, and their relatives. Appropriate use of social media may be a valuable supporting tool for women during this stage of their lives. This paper describes the role of social media on the Internet for supporting pregnant women and mothers with depression, particularly in global public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media may contribute to support health and wellness by facilitating social interaction, building communities, normalizing help-seeking behavior, inspiring healthy lifestyle changes, and promoting medical research. It is essential to adequately educate women in the perinatal stage in digital health literacy including the efficient use of social media for socio-emotional support and assuring the quality of the information circulating in social media and in Internet for proper decision-making.