HAInnovPrev:

Empowering Nursing high education with innovative healthcare-associated infection prevention and control practices in Latin America

Project reference: 101083115

 

Why the HAInnovPrev project?

Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance pose global challenges to society. Their high prevalence, particularly in Latin America, makes it imperative to promote educational reforms and health and social policies aimed at enhancing the safety and quality of healthcare.

Nurses, as the most prominent professional group in many healthcare systems, play a decisive role in preventing healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. In this context, it is considered essential to develop nursing curricula in Latin America that introduce pedagogical innovations in teaching the prevention of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance.

The goal is to improve the skills of students, who will become proactive agents of change in clinical settings, ultimately leading to the creation of value in healthcare.

The HAInnovPrev project is an extension of the InovSafeCare project, which was launched in 2018 by a consortium consisting of five European Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The primary goal of this initial project was to enhance educational content and teaching methods within undergraduate nursing programs in Europe in the field of healthcare-associated infections prevention and control.

Given the similar and recurrent challenges faced by HEIs in Latin America in this field, in 2023, the HAInnovPrev project was started, in a collaborative effort among six higher education institutions spanning from Portugal (Nursing School of Coimbra), Spain (University of Salamanca), Brazil (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – Anna Nery Nursing School and Federal University of Viçosa), and Peru (National Autonomous University of Chota and Andean University of Cusco).