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NURSING 764

NURSING AND HEALTH INFORMATICS

3 credits.

Application of computer and information technologies to support nursing in the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health, illness, and developmental challenges. Identification of information processing challenges and evaluation of informatics solutions. Ethical, legal and social issues related to informatics in patient care.

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize, analyze, and pose solutions for information processing challenges as faced by nurses and other health professionals managing select patients, populations, or groups. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify the current state of development of major areas within nursing and health informatics. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate the conceptual ability and technical skills to develop and execute an evaluation plan involving data extraction from practice information systems and databases. Audience: Graduate 4. Consistent with ethical, legal, and social considerations, devise and evaluate biomedical informatics solutions to the information processing challenges identified. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize, analyze, and pose solutions for information processing challenges as faced by nurses and other health professionals managing select patients, populations, or groups. Audience: Graduate 2. Identify the current state of development of major areas within nursing and health informatics. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate the conceptual ability and technical skills to develop and execute an evaluation plan involving data extraction from practice information systems and databases. Audience: Graduate 4. Consistent with ethical, legal, and social considerations, devise and evaluate biomedical informatics solutions to the information processing challenges identified. Audience: Graduate

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