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INFORMATICS AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES FOR NURSING PRACTICE

NURSING 438
Course Description

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.

Prerequisties

Declared in Nursing (Accelerated or Traditional program) BSN

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

1

Offered

Not Applicable

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