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Sep 07, 2024
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BNURSE 462 - Nursing Informatics & Telehealth Credits: 3 Focuses on informatics and telehealth within clinical practice to improve communication and support the delivery of quality health care. Healthcare trends will be included.
Enrollment Requirement: Enrollment in the LPN to BSN Program
Course Fee: $75.00
Course Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:
- Evaluate the role of informatics in improving patient care outcomes and creating a safe care environment for a diverse patient population.
- Analyze current and emerging technologies to optimize safety, cost effectiveness, and health outcomes.
- Discuss legal, regulatory, professional, and financial issues related to telehealth.
- Describe the application of telehealth to support high-quality, efficient, and person-centered care.
- Employ informatics to teach patients about health promotion, disease prevention, and risk reduction.
Program Outcomes
- Integrate knowledge from the arts and sciences to manage the care of clients across the life span using evidence-based practice and clinical reasoning to inform decision making.
- Provide holistic, person-centered, population health care to diverse populations including community and public health.
- Utilize research information to improve health of diverse clients across the life span.
- Minimize harm to clients through quality assurance and improvement.
- Use systems-based practice to coordinate and manage care to provide safe, quality, and equitable care.
- Integrate informatics and other healthcare technologies to inform decision making when managing and delivering safe, high-quality, and efficient health care in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
- Demonstrate accountability for personal and professional development, including the professional identity of a bachelor of science prepared registered nurse, and life long learning.
- Apply leadership principles and quality improvement when intentionally collaborating with the interdisciplinary health care team to provide evidence-based, safe quality nursing care.
College-wide Outcomes
- Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
- Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
- Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
- Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.
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