Health Informatics (NURS-HI)
Courses
NURS-HI 3358. FUNDAMENTAL TELEHEALTH SKILLS. 3 Hours.
This course is designed to provide students with foundational knowledge of skills required for effective telehealth application and delivery. Prerequisite: undergraduate status or special student status.
NURS-HI 3359. INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH INFORMATICS. 3 Hours.
This course provides the foundation for the study of health informatics and covers topics such as health information management, clinical information systems (inpatient, outpatient, nursing, laboratory, pharmacy, radiology, etc.), decision support systems, clinical research and health-assessment systems, technology assessment, population health, ethics, security and confidentiality, social determinants of health and emerging trends. Prerequisite: undergraduate status or special student status.
NURS-HI 3360. INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE. 3 Hours.
This course is designed to provide students with foundational knowledge of interprofessional collaborative practice. Students will explore values and ethics for interprofessional practice, roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice, interprofessional communication strategies, and the interprofessional teamwork and team-based practice. This course will provide a framework for deliberate interprofessional collaborative practice with other health professionals to maintain a climate of mutual respect and shared values in today's complex health care environment, with the common goal of improving patient outcomes. Prerequisite: undergraduate status or special student status.