NRSG 365 - Nursing Informatics for RNs (2)

Prerequisites: NRSG 315  (or concurrent)
7 week course.
Nursing Informatics is the combination of nursing science, informational science, and computer science, integrated in a manner that facilitates practice through technological structures supportive of evidence-based decision making. The course introduces the student to a broad scope of information management in the health care setting and emerging roles and functions of nurses who use computer technology as aids to their practice; clinical, legal, and ethical standards behind documentation and methodology will be examined. Emphasis is on quality and safety concerns in health care delivery as they relate to nursing informatics practice. The nurse’s workflow is examined and professional documentation expected. This is a 7-week 2-credit course (30 clock hours) with scheduled voluntary syncsessions with peers and the professor.

This course meets the requirements for a written communication course (see Communication Requirements ).