Avaliação da satisfação dos usuários de aplicativos que facilitam e contribuem para qualidade da prática de profissionais de enfermagem

Abstract

Introduction and objectives: Technological changes results occurring quickly, among them the mobile devices and their applications that are currently used in the health field have been highlighted, providing benefits. The objective is to investigate the main applications used on mobile devices that facilitate and contribute to professional nursing practice. Methods: The search method with access to the Play Store and AppStore virtual stores to search for apps of interest and collect informationabout them. This is an exploratory research. A survey of the main applications used in the health area was carried out in application libraries on the Android and iOS operating systems, in the Play Store and AppStore stores, using the keywords "assistance" and "nursing", on both platforms. From this, we selected the applications with Portuguese language and excluded those that did not refer to the research subject. Results: The general search resulted in 52 applications, 34 collected from the Google Play Store from Google Play® and 18 from the Apple Store from Apple, the first group referring to the Android system and the second group referring to iOS. In the Android and iOS operating systems, Education was the most found category among the applications selected by the Android system, while Medicine was the most found category in the applications collected in the iOS system. Conclusion: Users of applications with the theme "assistance" and "nursing" seek, above all, for technical information and learning on the topic. Most of these audiences use devices with the Android configuration, a system that has a greater number of applications in the nursing area, a greater number of evaluations and a higher level of user satisfaction when compared to iOS.