General information


Subject type: Optional

Coordinator: Montserrat Lamoglia Puig

Trimester: First term

Credits: 5

Teaching staff: 

Carlos Martínez Piper
Meritxell Puyané Oliva 

Skills


Basic skills
  • CB4_That students can convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to an audience, both specialized and non-specialized

  • CB5_That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

  • CB2_That students know how to apply their knowledge to their job or vocation in a professional way and have the skills that need to be demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems within their area of ​​study

  • CB3_That students have the ability to gather or interpret relevant data (usually within their area of ​​study), to make judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues

Specific skills
  • CE6_Apply health care information and communication technologies and systems

  • CE15_Direct, evaluate and perform comprehensive nursing care, to the individual, the family and the community

  • CE27_Final degree project: Cross-curricular subject The work will be carried out in association with different subjects

General competencies
  • CG10_Protect the health and well-being of the people, family or groups cared for, ensuring their safety

  • CG6_Basing nursing interventions on scientific evidence and available media

  • CG11_Establish effective communication with patients, family, social groups and peers and promote health education

  • CG16_Know the health information systems

Description


The subject "Tic. Communication portal, knowledge networks and impact on management and organization. Digital Hospital" it is part of the optionality of the nursing degree. The purpose of the subject is to make the student aware of the importance of the digital transformation in health and to make visible those essential aspects that can directly intervene in the transformation of healthcare processes, such as mobile devices, sensors, the Internet and the Internet of Things (IOT), social networks, genomics and Big Data. All these elements, but especially the Internet and the mobile phone, have changed the way we live.

Additionally, the course focuses on the relevance of Health 2.0 understood as the use of social tools to promote collaboration between patients, caregivers and health professionals, allowing a much more agile communication than known until the present. The Health 2.0 concept provides the ideal conceptual framework for integrating the content of Health 2.0 into the nursing curriculum, drawing the key and necessary concepts in the current nursing curriculum and identifying the aspects resulting from the effects of Nursing. 2.0.

The concept evolves at the moment when innovation and technology come into play, forming a perfect choice that defines the subject. The subject offers the possibility to create, share, reflect, discuss, learn and develop ideas to improve patient care, discovering advanced innovations focused on improving care with an active interrelationship of innovation and creativity. It is then this cocktail between Digital Health, Health 2.0 and Innovation that shapes the added value of the subject, offering students the possibility of obtaining the skills required to understand the transformation of nursing care today.

This subject has methodological and digital resources to make possible its continuity in non-contact mode in the case of being necessary for reasons related to the Covid-19. In this way, the achievement of the same knowledge and skills that are specified in this teaching plan will be ensured.

Learning outcomes


  • LO 1. Understand the basic operating principles of health systems in a context of ICT use.
  • LO 2. Use the citizen's health data in a context of total availability and sharing of the patient's health information.
  • LO 3. Identify the healthcare scenario and the implications of the incorporation of ICT in healthcare systems for the relationship between the patient and the healthcare professional.
  • LO 4. Know the fundamental bases and main applications of ICT tools applied to the promotion and care of people's health.
  • LO 5. Manage planning strategies and efficient implementation of ICT in health systems.
  • LO 6. Identify ICT technologies to provide solutions to the needs of clinical research and healthcare practice.
  • LO 7. Elaborate clinical research proposals using ICT.

Working methodology


The teaching methodologies used in the subject are: 

  • MD1. Expository class sessions
  • MD2. Seminars
  • MD3. Work in group
  • MD4. Individual work
  • MD11. Self-employment

Contents


1. Basic knowledge of eHealth, Health 2.0 and innovation

   1.1. eHealth as a practice in the health environment. 

   1.2. Health 2.0 in the current context. 

   1.3. Innovation and health. Design processes in creation and innovation with technology.

   1.4. Impact of ICT in organizations. Opportunities and challenges for nursing. The digital nurse.

2. Nursing practice in digital health: components and opportunities

   2.1. Components: eSalut (Health). Health care and web 2.0. (Environment). ePatient (Patient). Participatory health (Nursing care). 

   2.2. Opportunities: Collective intelligence. Learning communities. Knowledge management. Design of services.

3. Trend in nursing care and ICT

   3.1. Miscellaneous: (1) Mobile applications in health. (2) Big Data, Machine learning, chatbots, and Artificial Intelligence. (3) Virtual, augmented and mixed reality. (4) Digital skills of the nurse. 

   3.2. The digital nurse's toolbox.

 

Learning activities


Activity ECTS Methodology Hours
AF1. Master class 1,2 MD1. Expository class sessions 30
AF5. Seminars 0,4 MD2. Seminars 10
AF7. Individual work 1 MD4. Individual work 25
AF9. Personal study 0,6 MD11. Self-employment 15
AF6. Work in group 1,8 MD3. Work in group 45

Evaluation system


The evaluation of the competences will be carried out continuously with the following activities:

Evaluation activity Weighting Assessed skills
SE4. Classroom participation 30% CB3, CB5, CG16
SE2. Individual works 30% CB2, CB3, CG6, CE6
SE3. Teamwork 40% CB2, CB4, CB5, CG6, CG11, CE6, CE15

A system of quantitative (from 0 to 10) and qualitative (suspended, approved, notable, excellent, honorary registration) is used according to RD 1125/2003.

Important:

Attendance is not mandatory except in the seminars, where the student can only abstain from a maximum of two seminars. 

To pass the subject, an average of 5 must be obtained between all assessment activities. 

The only part that can be recovered will be the final group work (during the corresponding recovery period).

In accordance with current regulations, you can only opt for recovery, if it has been suspended the subject. If the grade is Not Presented, you will not be eligible for recovery. Continuous assessment is not likely to recover.

In the case of failing the subject, it must be recovered next year (no note will be saved). 

The total or partial copy in any of the learning activities means a "Not Presented" in the subject, without option to present in the proof of recovery and without prejudice of the opening of a file for this reason.

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