Good Practices in Vaccination for the Continuing Education of Nursing Professionals: A Rapid Review Protocol

This is a rapid review protocol aimed at identifying digital educational strategies used to support the continuing education of nursing professionals involved in immunization practices within health services. The basic processes for implementing rapid reviews suggested by Plüddemann et al. (2018) were used to develop this study. The review will be reported according to the PRISMA checklist, with prior protocol registration on the Open Science Framework platform. The research question formulation will be guided by the PCC mnemonic, considering nursing professionals as the population, good vaccination practices as the concept, and virtual continuing education environments as the context. Based on this framework, the study seeks to answer the following question: what digital educational strategies have been used to support the continuing education of nursing professionals involved in immunization practices in health services? Studies will be identified through systematic searches of electronic databases and gray literature, as well as manual searches of reference lists. The MEDLINE/PubMed, Scopus, and SciELO databases will be consulted using DeCS and MeSH descriptors related to immunization, vaccination, distance education, and nursing, combined with the Boolean operators AND and OR, while respecting the specific requirements of each database. Studies addressing the topic that are available in full text, published within the last ten years, and written in Portuguese, English, or Spanish will be included. Editorials, letters to the editor, abstracts, correspondence, opinion pieces, experience reports, and reviews will be excluded. Study selection will be performed with the aid of Rayyan software by an experienced reviewer, based on the reading of titles and abstracts. Data extraction will be carried out using a standardized spreadsheet tool, covering study identification information, methodological characteristics, evidence regarding good vaccination practices, content and pedagogical approaches used in virtual environments, and key results and conclusions. The data analysis will be descriptive in nature, and the synthesis of the results will be presented using tables, graphs, and figures to facilitate the organization and visualization of the identified evidence.