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Nov 15, 2024
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NURS 469 - Nursing Informatics and Health Policy (2 units)
This course identifies and analyzes healthcare policy, informatics, and technology within a societal context.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the nursing major; NURS 317 ; NURS 318 ; NURS 346 ; NURS 347 . Corequisite(s): NURS 433 ; NURS 434 ; NURS 439 .
Units of Lecture: 2
Offered: Every Fall and Summer
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. justify the importance of using patient care technologies, information systems and communication devices to support safe nursing practice.
2. analyze ethical standards for the electronic health record related to data security, regulatory requirements, confidentiality and patients’ right to privacy.
3. illustrate the importance of computer and information literacy in developing safe and effective clinical information systems.
4. describe the history, structure, and function of health policy in the United States with consideration to global health issues.
5. identify organizational and governmental policies that affect health care and nursing practice.
6. describe nurses’ roles and responsibilities in policy as specified in the current ANA Social Policy Statement and Code of Ethics.
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