Telemonitoring strategy in the face of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Abstract

The aim of this study is to identify whether, in the perception of the Academic Scholars of Nursing and Medicine, the practical knowledge that was the object of desire at the time of enrollment for the academic scholar 2020 was achieved, since due to the pandemic of COVID-19 there was a need for the Secretariat Municipal Health Department of Rio de Janeiro to implement a new internship model, in the Telemonitoring modality. Methodology: a descriptive study with a descriptive and exploratory qualitative and quantitative approach. The research was carried out with three Family Clinics of the Basic Health Network of the City of Rio de Janeiro and 11 Academic Nursing and Medicine Scholars participated in the research. Data collection took place between September and November 2020 through semi-structured interviews using online questionnaires, using the Bardin methodology where the organization, coding and categorization of the data was carried out. It became evident that the internship in the Telemonitoring modality does not meet the expectations of Scholarship Scholars, it is important to note that, of these 63.7% did not fulfill their entire internship period in this modality, being directed to their units after the relaxation of the policies of social distance to carry out the practical internship.