NURS 510 Advanced Informatics and Health Care Technologies

This course will explore the field of Health Informatics specific to organizing, using, and critically appraising health information and information technology to enhance evidence-based practice, improve advanced nursing practice, and improve outcomes across health care settings. Use of informatics to make data-driven decisions, to measure patient outcomes, to promote patient safety and quality improvement, to manage financials and make financial decisions, and to manage and utilize health care information will be explored. Processes in adopting health care and health information technologies and in the use of data from informatics systems to drive process changes to promote patient safety and quality improvement will be examined with consideration of health care ethics and data confidentiality, privacy and security. Prerequisites: Admission to the MSN Program or Division of Nursing approval.