Objective: Describing the stages of elaboration and development of a massive open online course on "Nursing Assessment". Method: Experience report of the construction of a free course, developed between 2015 and 2016 with the partnership of the School of Nursing and the Nucleus of Support to Distance Learning. The course was hosted on the Lúmina platform. Results: The construction of the course began in 2015 and the first edition was made available in September 2016, with 693 participants. The aim of the choice and elaboration of the material was to design an attractive and quality course for the community. The stages observed in its elaboration were choice of theme, course production, preliminary assessment and launching the first edition. Conclusions: The course has been shown to be a support for in-class teaching, as well as for the continuing education of health professionals.

Objective: To contextualize the performance of nurses/nursing team in the dispensing of materials to assist users in home visits, in primary care. Methods: Dialectical qualitative study conducted between March and April 2018 in which 24 nurses from primary health care units in the Gloria/Cruzeiro/Cristal District of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, completed the self-administered questionnaire, whose data were treated by thematic content analysis. The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee. Results: Two categories emerged from the empirical corpus: logistic chain of material management for home user assistance; production of services and capacity of the team. Conclusion: The work processes related to materials management for home user assistance and the resulting health services production require a look at specificities such as workload and technologies involved, as they move the performance of the nurse/nursing staff.