INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY

NURSING 438

Broad overview of how digital health, information, and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information for decision making, and support the expansion of knowledge for professional practice, with an emphasis on key considerations to ensure equitable, safe, high quality and efficient care across the care continuum.

NURSING 444

Expand understanding of core nursing competencies such as safe therapeutic care and health informatics by examining how these concepts operate at a systems-level to influence care and outcomes. Focus is given to emergency preparedness as enacted in a variety of systems. Key conceptual elements of the healthcare system, organization, policy, financing and law, and quality improvement and their impact on care and outcomes are examined. Expand your understanding of scholarship and evidence-based practice by delving into the process of nursing research.

NURSING 764

Application of computer and information technologies to support nursing in the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health, illness, and developmental challenges. Identification of information processing challenges and evaluation of informatics solutions. Ethical, legal and social issues related to informatics in patient care.

NURSING 564

Identification of computer and information technologies to support nursing in the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health, illness, and development challenges. Examination of information systems used in clinical practice, information processing challenges and nurses' roles in the evaluation of informatics solutions. Ethical, legal and social issues related to informatics in patient care.

NURSING 715

Evaluate and appraise health informatics and information technology in order to develop integrative approaches to the design, implementation and evaluation of health informatics solutions and problems. Application of standards, document architecture, decision support systems and heuristic rules and system life-cycle are key areas of focus. People and organization issues for system implementation and evaluation are applied to real data issues to examine privacy, data protection, and institutional responsibilities.