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ICT Literacy in Health Sciences

Compiled by Lesley Farmer, California State University Long Beach

This bibliography focuses on ICT literacy as it is implemented in United States health sciences education.
 

 GENERAL:

Wikis’ links include associations, curriculum, articles, presentations, and standards  

Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and state content standards also refer to K-12 ICT competencies (sometimes listed as information literacy, digital literacy, media literacy, or research skills).

 

MERLOT LINKS:

Key terms: Health sciences, Health and human services, Nursing, Nursing education, Medicine, Internal medicine, Biology, Life sciences, other health specialties (e.g., Sport science, Nutrition, Public health)

Note that digital literacy applies to the various tools that health professionals use, such as ECG.  Likewise, information literacy applies to health vocabulary, analyzing diagnostic data, etc.

  • Academic Support Services / ePortfolios / Health and human services
  • Academic Support Services / Virtual environments / Disciplinary content / Health sciences & medicine
  • Business / Economics / Health, ed and welfare
  • Science and Technology / Health sciencesSocial Sciences / Psychology / Community and health
  • Workforce Development / Technical allied health
  • Health Sciences Community: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/HealthSciences.htm
  • MERLOT Open Education Resources for Nursing https://csuoern.merlot.org/ 

 

LIBGUIDES:

 

OTHER DIGITAL RESOURCES:

 

ARTICLES:

 

LEARNING ACTIVITIES IDEA STARTERS:
  • Ask students to create a timeline of a health sciences concept (e.g., theories about mental illness, disease; hospital care).
  • Ask students to use drawing or image editing software to create an ideal health care environment, noting the focus of the facility and reasoning for the design.
  • Ask students to compare health care practices around the world.
  • Ask students to research the cultural connotation of health care in different cultures.
  • Ask students to research historical or cultural influences on health care.
  • Ask students to research intellectual property law (both copyright and patents/trademarks) as it applies to health care.
  • Ask students to research and debate ethical issues in health care.
  • Ask students to compare codes of ethics from different sectors of health care.Ask them to create their own code of ethics.
  • Ask students to interview personnel in different jobs affiliated with health care.
  • Ask students to compare the same job across different organizations, and within the same organization.
  • Ask students to take pictures of a typical day in a health care facility, and compare findings.
  • Ask students to create an organizational chart of a health care agency, noting number of staff and general salaries.
  • Ask students to research career ladders in health care.
  • Ask students to research the total cost of a medical procedure, including facilities (e.g., utilities, maintenance), equipment (e.g., selection and purchase, training, maintenance, storage), supplies (e.g., ordering, processing, use, disposal), food (selection and purchase, storage, preparation, dissemination, clean-up and disposal), personnel (e.g., labor, training, scheduling), administration (e.g., insurance, accounting, processing).
  • Ask students to research the total cost of a new drug, including research and development (facilities, equipment, staff, supplies), production start-up, federal review, and marketing.
  • Ask students to flowchart how a drug gets FDA approval.
  • Ask students to research the same health care topic in two database aggregators (e.g., CINAHL, PubMed, MEDLINE), and compare the process and results.
  • Ask students to analyze the representation of health care in movies (see http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2013/04/25/global-health-films-to-get-you-inspired/12545).
  • Ask students to research the impact of technology on health care and health care education.
  • Ask students to create an infographic about a health care topic.
  • Ask students to create a public service announcement that is related to a health care topic (e.g., health practice, baby care, exercise, stroke identification).
  • Ask students to create a virtual museum exhibit about past and present tools/equipment and facilities in health care.
  • Ask students to debate a global health issue such as cost of vaccines/medicine.
  • Ask students to create a graphic novel or fotonovela about some aspect of health practice, such as pre-natal care.
  • Ask students to research how health care has impacted wars.
  • Ask students to investigate the impact of health care in U.S. history using primary sources (e.g., the Library of Congress’s American Memory collections: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html)
  • Ask students to research the impact (social, economic, environmental) of some health care practice.
  • Ask students to take photos of a health care concept, and annotate them in terms of locale, evidence of the concept, and implications.