NURSING AND HEALTH INFORMATICS

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.

MEDICINE 700

Overview of the field of applied clinical and health informatics will provide foundational knowledge of the core concepts of clinical and health informatics and how those principles are used to improve health and health care delivery.

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 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.

CNP 453

Utilize computer and information/decision science to support quality and safety in health care. Explore informatics issues and examine nursing's role in healthcare technology. Opportunities to use and master various healthcare technologies and healthcare data will be given.