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🏆 OTRI Award · University of Burgos 2017

Home nursing
reimagined

UbuNurse digitizes nursing assessments at the patient's home, removing paper and improving healthcare staff efficiency.

55%
Population in Castile and León receiving home care
13.3M
Home visits per year in Spain
11
Gordon patterns
3 SO
Android · iOS · Windows Phone
Market context

A huge, under-innovated market

7.5%
of medical consultations in Spain are home visits
47%
of patients need more than one visit
55%
of the population in Castile and León receives home care
The Problem

Home nursing still lives in the past

The daily work of nursing staff during home visits is still full of technical friction.

Paper and pen

Notes are taken by hand and transcribed later to a computer.

Unclear results

Existing software does not clearly show all patterns or scales.

No trend visibility

There is no visual tool to follow the patient over time.

The Solution

A mobile app that digitizes the entire visit

UbuNurse brings Gordon's Functional Health Patterns and assessment scales to the nurse's pocket, works offline, and syncs data automatically when WiFi is available.

Patient management

Detailed patient view with full history and quick search.

11 integrated patterns

All Gordon functional patterns and their associated scales.

Trend charts

Clear visualization of patient evolution with Chart.js.

User flow

From the patient's door to insight in minutes

UbuNurse removes manual steps from the home-visit workflow.

1

Open the patient

Search the patient or open the daily list.

2

Choose pattern and scale

Pick the proper Gordon pattern and scale.

3

Complete the questionnaire

The app guides you with structured questions and semantic colors.

4

Review evolution and save

Check the chart and sync when connectivity returns.

Tech stack

Technical choices built for the real world

Every tool was chosen to prioritize offline independence and cross-platform coverage.

📦

PhoneGap

Cross-platform hybrid framework

🌐

HTML5 + CSS3 + JS

Core of the app

📱

jQuery Mobile

Mobile and tablet UI

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Chart.js

Charts without network dependency

Recognition

OTRI Award · Market-Oriented Prototype

UbuNurse was selected as one of the three award-winning projects by the OTRI of the University of Burgos in 2017.

University of Burgos — November 2017
Roadmap

Future work

These are the next evolutions that would make UbuNurse a reference platform.

Multi-language

Support for Basque, Catalan, Galician, and international languages.

Optimal routes

Use GPS to compute the most efficient route between visits.

Performance evaluation

Measure questionnaire times to improve the UI.

Care plan

Automatic care-plan generation based on results.

👨‍💻

Álvaro Pérez Santamaría

Author · BSc in Computer Engineering

University of Burgos · June 2017

About the project

An award-winning, market-oriented thesis

UbuNurse was born from a conversation with healthcare professionals about the lack of digital tools in home nursing.

The app is open source and published on GitHub under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.