Authors:
Bráulio Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto
1
;
André Luiz Silva Alvim
2
;
Isabela Lorena Alfenas da Silva
1
;
Mário Marcos Brito Horta
1
;
Joaquim José da Cunha Júnior
1
and
Carlos Ernesto Ferreira Starling
2
Affiliations:
1
Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte - UniBH, Brazil
;
2
Hospital Lifecenter, Brazil
Keyword(s):
Hand Disinfection, Handwashing, Continuing Education, Robot Tutors.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Computer-Supported Education
;
Information Technologies Supporting Learning
;
Smart Devices as Collaborative Learning Tools
;
Ubiquitous Learning
Abstract:
Continuing education of health professionals in relation to hand hygiene practices or other issues is a
challenge for health services. How to take a healthcare worker from his work sector, for example, Intensive
Care Units (ICUs) or Operating Room, to give him classes and lectures? Here we investigated whether or
not it is possible to adapt a toy robot as a tool to continuous education of healthcare workers in the context
of hand hygiene compliance, a big problem for hospital infection. We got to adapt the MeccaNoid G15KS, a
toy programmable robot named Ozires, as an instrument of health training to improve the compliance with
hand hygiene. The robot was adapted with mini projector, spy camera, an automatic alcohol hand sanitizer
dispenser, a cell phone and a cell phone support and an audio amplifier. Ozires, accompanied by infection
control practitioners, performs short video-lecture presentations and own reports of the institution's data
regarding infections and the hand h
ygiene rate, working from 10 to 15 minutes in each target sector. After
the insertion of Ozires in three ICUs, the hand hygiene rate increased from about 36%, between January and
July, to 65% in August-November/2016.
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