The effect of virtual based education on the neonatal nurse's Caring ability in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Education is an important issue in improvement knowledge of health care professionals. The Web-based education could be considered because of the flexibility of the education system, a good opportunity to extend, and deepen learning of scientific content providers. This study aimed to assess the impact of virtual learning in increasing knowledge and its effectiveness inNICU.
In this quasi- experimental study,80 nurses working in the neonatal intensive care in third unite of chosen hospital of Tehran University of Medical Sciences using random samples method (lottery)were divided into two experimental and control groups. And then use virtual symbol system [ through learning management system(LMS)] of the virtual school of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, the experimental group received two months of training through an asynchronous on–line learning method using the educational content in the form of visual (multimedia files), audio (podcasting) and text files (PDF) were. The study was conducted during 2 months in 2015-2016. Data collected by demographic questionnaire and caring ability scales CAI on the first day and two months after intervention for pre-test and post-test were collected.
Subjects in the intervention and control groups in terms of demographic variables were matched. The results of the independent and paired samples T test showed, between the unmeant score of caring ability in two groups before the intervention(p=0.001) And between the mean caring ability before and after the study (p =0.071), there was no statistically significant difference. But between the mean caring ability intervention group before and after the intervention (P E-learning can be used as a flexible manner, which allows access to multimedia and interactive educational content at any time and place to provide for nurses, and using to train for newborn' nursing and other sectors.