Informational competencies in Nursing Degree: The Spanish case

Abstract

The aim of this research is to analyze the inclusion of contents related to informational competences in the Nursing Degree's curricula in Spain. The choice of this scenario will allow us to know the importance that the different centers grant to these competences in their study plans and obtain a vision on how the integration of these contents starting from the teaching guides of the subjects. It is an exploratory and descriptive research. The final sample contains 118 centers of 58 universities and 325 subjects, belonging to the 2014-2015 academic year. The differences that each center grants to this inclusion are observed. The complete curricular itineraries with this type of contents are almost non-existent. It is considered necessary to influence the importance of designing specific nursing Information Literacy programs in each center, in which contents are progressively included in different subjects per academic year.