Nursing care process for a safe return to schools post-covid-19

Abstract

COVID-19 caused the closure of schools, moving activities to virtual environments for almost two years. Subsequently, governments give educational institutions plans for the safe return to school activities to improve a transition to face-to-face attendance for the school community and keep new cases of COVID-19 to a minimum. The nursing professional, through the Nursing Care Process (NCP), has the necessary tools and knowledge to operationalize these guidelines and implement them effectively in school communities. Objective: To facilitate a safe return to school activities in a primary school in Mexico. Methodology: A community case study with NCP, establishing the community of a primary school as a patient, for the assessment qualitative techniques and community participation were used and for the diagnostic process, results, and interventions the NANDA 2021-2023 taxonomy was used, Classification of NOC Results and classification of NIC Interventions. Results: Work was carried out around a diagnosis, a result, and two interventions on community participation in educational and health communication programs, as well as the reduction of risk behaviors for health in the community. Conclusions: The NCP made it possible to improve health-promoting behaviors around the use of face masks, healthy distance, and hand washing in the community. By considering the assessment of different actors, health communication materials were made as a technique to reinforce learned habits.