Improving Nursing Practice with Technology

Course work explores emerging health care technologies and health informatics and the impact on advanced nursing practice. Emphasis on health information systems prepares students to assimilate an individual’s health information into a patient-centered plan of care, analyze and utilize data to improve aspects of health outcomes such as cost, quality, safety, and patient satisfaction, and assess health patterns of populations and aggregates. Application of ethical principles from a Christian worldview in the utilization of health care technologies and informatics are emphasized. Prerequisite: NUR 590 or NUR 495.