Data Science and Informatics for Quality Improvement

3 credits · School of Nursing

This course addresses how information systems and data structures can be leveraged to address health care questions, with emphasis on nurse-generated data and nursing-sensitive indicators. Students will select data and quality metrics to identify practice gaps and evaluate interventions to improve patient safety and quality of care. Students will query, prepare data, and use analytics techniques. Data science methods and informatics tools will be explored in the context of a quality improvement culture, with emphasis on critical thinking, data governance, sustainability, and scalability. Instructor consent required