Overview
Description
This course identifies and analyzes healthcare policy, informatics, and technology within a societal context.
Requirements
Units
Lecture2
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall and Summer
Terms
fall, summer
Restrictions
Admission to the nursing major
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- justify the importance of using patient care technologies, information systems and communication devices to support safe nursing practice.
- analyze ethical standards for the electronic health record related to data security, regulatory requirements, confidentiality and patients’ right to privacy.
- illustrate the importance of computer and information literacy in developing safe and effective clinical information systems.
- describe the history, structure, and function of health policy in the United States with consideration to global health issues.
- identify organizational and governmental policies that affect health care and nursing practice.
- describe nurses’ roles and responsibilities in policy as specified in the current ANA Social Policy Statement and Code of Ethics.