Background: Active learning methodologies have been widely adopted into undergraduate healthcare, and a strategic framework that guides learning to the students, being blended-learning which combines the best of face-to-face and virtual learning. Therefore, this study aimed to identify the key elements from a virtual forum in achieving competencies in clinical practice in critical care, and to evaluate the b-learning process of undergraduates nursing through a virtual forum on Moodle Platform.Methods: Mixed research conducted. A qualitative descriptive phenomenological methodology informed by virtual forum and quantitative descriptive method from self-reported questionnaire. An intentional sample of nursing students of clinical practice in critical care units from fourth-year undergraduate in Rovira Virgili University (Spain) was employed. Data source included virtual forum (sixteen weeks) and final seminar classroom included face-to-face. Sociodemographic and forum variables were evaluated questionnaire ad hoc (fifty questions): learning, tutoring, satisfaction, and self-evaluation about virtual forum with Likert scores 1:(strongly disagree) to 4:(strongly agree).Results: It was observed 51 nursing students, 70.6% of students were women (n.36) with an average of age of 21.18 years (standard deviation 2,186). In the qualitative analysis of the forums, six main categories were extracted: The humanization of care (n=93), Communication (n=69), Learning (n =92), Professional knowledge (n=55), Clinical Safety (n=66), Complexity (n=101). The analysis of the questionnaire shows: The evaluation learning, tutoring, self-evaluation about virtual forum, and satisfaction. The items that have presented significant differences (p<0.05) are six items and by (p<0.01) one item.Conclusion: The dynamized forum allows accompanying the students while their clinical practice in critically ill patients in their learning process to develop critical thinking. It’s also a useful tool for achieving results, in scenarios that have become the result of social confinements, which will lead to a paradigm change in universal education.
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