Overview
Description
Designing, selecting, using, and critiquing technological programs that evaluate and monitor outcomes of care, care systems, and quality improvement including healthcare information systems.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Completion of term 2 of the DNP program.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Completion of term 2 of the DNP program.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Summer
Terms
summer
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze and communicate critical elements necessary to the selection, use and evaluation of health care information systems and patient care technology.
- use information technology appropriately to o collect appropriate and accurate data to generate evidence for nursing practice.
- inform and guide the design of databases that generate meaningful evidence for nursing practice.
- analyze data from practice.
- predict and analyze outcomes.
- examine patterns of behavior and outcomes.
- demonstrate the conceptual ability and technical skills to develop and execute an evaluation plan involving data extraction from practice information systems and databases.
- provide leadership in the evaluation and resolution of ethical and legal issues within healthcare systems relating to the use of information, information technology, communication networks, and patient care technology.
- evaluate consumer health information sources for accuracy, timeliness, and appropriateness.