Moodle as online platform for cardiac nurses’ competency: nursing staff experiences

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Abstract Background Aswan Heart Centre competency project were started in 2017, nurse’s competency were tillered and implemented within the nursing units. Self-assessment and preceptor grading ideationally to constrictive comment should be documented in the competency tool for every staff, was no unified way to keep tracking these documentations and very hard to secure the hard copy. Aim Is to establish an online platform where the competencies are accessible and high secured that also controls and facilitates the use of nursing competencies. Process Moodle as a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) selected to be the new Online competency platform. Moodle expert were contacted by the nursing education department to assist and support the process. Online could server to host and upload the platform were established by the information technology department. After competencies and users uploaded pilot phase were started to identify the gap in the Moodle platform. After 4 months of use survey were conducted to get a clear view from the staff. Data analysis Most of the staff were satisfied about Moodle use, but the form still need farther support from the information technology department to host the Moodle cloud in stable server to avoid the browser render. Recommendation The use of cloud-based learning management system like Moodle will maintain the easy accessibility and the high security of the data also will facilitate the data audit for further plans.