Virtual learning environment in continuing education in nursing

This study is a report of a learning experience that had as objective to describe how was structured the virtual learning environment Moodle for training at work. This is a semi-distance education project for controlling a surgical site infection, oriented to the nurses of a university hospital. The study was organized having as a base the interactionist Skopos Model and on humanist principles. The activities were organized on topics aimed at: informing and updating the central aspects of the topic; generating problematization of situations and extend the individual and collective discussion; promoting integration; and encouraging a joint development of a proposal for action. The Moodle resources helped to select the teaching strategies to update knowledge, to generate ideas, and to promote the integration and collective construction of propositions.