Nursing Informatics

Catalog description

This course is designed to meet the needs of the doctoral nurse of practice and master’s prepared nurse in acquiring informatics knowledge for the use of information technology in meeting today’s health care challenges. Areas of concentration examine the implications of informatics for practice, including nursing, public health, and healthcare in general, electronic health record issues, related ethical, legislative, standardization and political issues in health informatics and explore global and future informatics issues. Restricted to: NURS, NUSC, NURP majors.