January 2026 University Catalog

NURS8012 Nursing Technology and Healthcare Information Systems

Students analyze the many facets of health informatics from the perspectives of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. Students also evaluate the role of nurses in advanced nursing practice roles with relation to policy-making, application design, technology selection, usability, safety, security, outcome data analysis, and interdisciplinary clinical workflow integration. In addition, students investigate strategies related to the utilization of information technology for quality improvement initiatives, evidence-based practice guideline implementation, administrative and clinical decision-making, and patient and clinician education. For DNP students only. Cannot be fulfilled by transfer.

Credits

4