INFORMATICS AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES FOR NURSING PRACTICE
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.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Declared in Nursing (Accelerated or Traditional program) BSN Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the variety of information and communication technologies used in the care of patients, communities, and populations Audience: Undergraduate 2. Discuss how nurses can assess literacy and assist individuals and families to effectively use digital health technologies Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain how digital health technologies are used to gather data, create information, and generate knowledge for quality and safe nursing care Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze the use of information, communication, and healthcare technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional, regulatory, and workplace policies in the delivery of care in an evolving healthcare landscape Audience: Undergraduate 5. Explain the importance of nursing engagement in the planning, selection, and adoption of healthcare technologies Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the variety of information and communication technologies used in the care of patients, communities, and populations Audience: Undergraduate 2. Discuss how nurses can assess literacy and assist individuals and families to effectively use digital health technologies Audience: Undergraduate 3. Explain how digital health technologies are used to gather data, create information, and generate knowledge for quality and safe nursing care Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze the use of information, communication, and healthcare technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional, regulatory, and workplace policies in the delivery of care in an evolving healthcare landscape Audience: Undergraduate 5. Explain the importance of nursing engagement in the planning, selection, and adoption of healthcare technologies Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027