Nursing Informatics: Technology to Improve Patient Care

Course overview

Nursing informatics supports nurses, patients, the interprofessional healthcare team, and other stakeholders in their decision-making in all healthcare settings to achieve desired outcomes. This course provides an understanding of how nursing informatics and technology impact quality patient care. Information structures, processes, and information technology (IT) are all components of nursing informatics that directly affect the care provided by the healthcare team. The course discusses current systems in use, the importance of teamwork, management of change, and the future of nursing informatics to provide a more comprehensive understanding of how informatics affects outcomes.