Nursing and Health Informatics
Nursing and Health Informatics examines computer and information technologies supporting nursing diagnosis and treatment, including clinical information systems, informatics evaluation, and ethical, legal, and social issues in patient care.
Summary
What you’ll be able to do
Recognize, analyze, and pose solutions for information processing challenges as faced by nurses and other health professionals managing select patients, populations, or groups.
Identify the current state of development of major areas within nursing and health informatics.
Demonstrate the conceptual ability and technical skills to develop and execute an evaluation plan involving data extraction from practice information systems and databases.
Consistent with ethical, legal, and social considerations, devise and evaluate biomedical informatics solutions to the information processing challenges identified.
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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.
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Topics
- Information systems used in clinical practice and information processing challenges.
- Ethical, legal, and social issues related to informatics in patient care.
- Current state of development of major areas within nursing and health informatics.
- Biomedical informatics solutions to information processing challenges.
Skills
- Recognize, analyze, and pose solutions for information processing challenges in nursing and health professional contexts.
- Identify the current state of development of major areas within nursing and health informatics.
- Develop and execute an evaluation plan involving data extraction from practice information systems and databases.
- Devise and evaluate biomedical informatics solutions consistent with ethical, legal, and social considerations.
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