Health Informatics Competences for eHealth: What Can We Learn From a Bibliometric Analysis?

The appearance of eHealth adds a new dimension to health informatics competencies--they are not necessary just for health providers and health information system users and developers, but also for health consumers.

Survey on specific nursing competences: Students' perceptions.

Introduction: The nursing profession requires sophisticated interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, which is why numerous nursing curricula are being developed all across the world. The aim of the study was to assess students' perspectives about competences, defined by the Tuning project, they acquired and developed since enrolment in the undergraduate nursing study programme.

Methods: A survey was performed amongst 69 postgraduate Master degree students at the Faculty of Health Sciences University of Maribor, Slovenia (nursing graduates) and the research results were analysed using conventional statistical and correspondence analysis.

Research literature production on nursing competences from 1981 till 2012: A bibliometric snapshot.

Background: When nurse education has moved away from a hospital based apprenticeship to a higher education institutions and new EU legislature enabled nurse workforce mobility, the term "competence" became an important concept in nurse education and practice. However, there is still a lot of confusion about its definition, how it should be assessed and implemented and which competences does a contemporary nurse need.

Objectives: To find publishing patterns in the nursing competence research literature production, focusing on publishing dynamics, identifying prolific research entities, most cited papers, and visualising the content of the research.

Nursing informatics competencies: bibliometric analysis.

Information and communication technology is developing rapidly and it is incorporated in many health care processes, but in spite of that fact we can still notice that nursing informatics competencies had received limited attention in basic nursing education curricula in Europe and especially in Eastern European countries. The purpose of the present paper is to present the results of a bibliometric analysis of the nursing informatics competencies scientific literature production. We applied the bibliometrics analysis to the corpus of 332 papers found in SCOPUS, related to nursing informatics competencies.

Elderly people's interaction with advanced technology.

Aging of population is an inevitable process by which the number of elderly people is increasing. Rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) is changing basic needs of elderly people; therefore society should ensure opportunities for elderly to learn and use ICT in a way to manage their daily life activities and in this way enable them participation in the information and knowledge society. The purpose of the study was to find out whether elderly are acquainted with the advanced technology and to what extent they use it or they desire to use it.

GEROM - Developing a Contemporary On-line Master's Degree Curriculum in Gerontology.

Demographic changes have profoundly influenced the structure of present and future populations in terms of the number of older people requiring nursing care, the nature and settings of the nursing care provided, and finally, each individual, e. g., nursing care providers.

Information and communication technology as a tool for improving physical and social activity of the elderly.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) can enrich elderly people's lives in various ways. The objective of this interventional quasi-experimental research study among elderly people in Slovenia and Finland is to present associations and relations between computer/Internet use, physical activity and social inclusion before and after a ICT interaction. The first study (before interaction) included 58 (M=72,41) and the second study (after interaction) 45 (M=72,96) elderly people.

Active learning in later life period.

It is well known that we are ageing more and more each day and that elderly are one of the most vulnerable population. Therefore we have to think globally how to reconnect elderly people into the active life again and to rebuild their personal challenges in connection with the society and in this way improve their quality of life. But however we have to be aware that we can not improve life of elderly people without improvement of their physical and mental activity.

HOHNEU: e-learning in occupational health education.

In the scope of the EU Leonardo project we developed an online master degree program in occupational health. During the project we performed two studies to research how the on line education is perceived by prospective students and lecturers. They showed that e-learning is an appropriate method for occupational health education but to be successful we also have to take into the consideration that health education requires some specific requirements which must be fulfilled.

e-Learning in nursing education--Challenges and opportunities.

Quick changes on the field of informational communication technologies forces educational and other institutions to think about different ways of teaching and learning in both formal and informal environments. It addition it is well known that due to fast advancement of science and technology the knowledge gained in schools is getting out-of-date rapidly, so life long learning is becoming an essential alternative. As a consequence we are facing a rapid development and use of new educational approaches such as e-learning, simulations, virtual reality, etc.