M.S., Nursing Informatics Concentration

Concentration Overview

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The Nursing Informatics concentration provides baccalaureate-prepared registered nurses with the knowledge and skills required to function as nursing informatics specialists. Nursing informatics specialists use information structures, processes and technology to design and implement information systems that support all areas of nursing as well as members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team. This includes support for the direct provision of healthcare, development and delivery of health-related education, design of effective administrative systems and implementation of nursing research. The program is designed for independent learners who desire an online experience coupled with clinical learning experiences that relate to today’s healthcare challenges and opportunities. Graduates meet the educational requirements for national certification programs.

Credit Distribution

I. Core Courses (12 Credits)

NUR-5290Health Policy

3

NUR-5300Evidence-Based Nursing Practice

3

NUR-5310Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Issues

3

NUR-5820Financial Management in Nursing Practice

3

II. Electives (6 Credits)

Electives may be selected from the nursing elective course offerings, direct-care core courses, and/or alternate specialty area courses. For example, students may take two courses in nursing to enhance their skill base and work toward a future certificate in another nursing specialty. For TESU course options, please contact an academic advisor.

III. Concentration Courses (9 Credits)

NUR-6310Nursing Informatics: Systems Life Cycle

3

NUR-7010Nursing Informatics: Databases and Knowledge Management

3

NUR-7110Nursing Informatics: Consumer Informatics and Communications Technologies

3

IV. Practicum Course (3 Credits)

NUR-7310Nursing Informatics: Seminar and Practicum II

3

Total Credit Hours: 30

NOTE:

Completion of 100 on-ground, supervised hours is required for the Practicum course. Application for Practicum placement is submitted six months in advance.

Course descriptions, advisories, and prerequisites can be found in the MSN Handbook publication. It is the student’s responsibility to know and to satisfy advisories and prerequisites prior to course registration.

Program Competencies

In addition to the M.S.N. outcomes, the graduate of the Nursing Informatics program will be able to:

AACN The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education (2021)

M.S.N. Nursing Informatics

Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Utilize interprofessional knowledge in nursing informatics to care for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to enact clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Domain 2: Person-Centered Care Descriptor: Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.

Demonstrate person-centered nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to promote positive informatics utilization.

Domain 3: Population Health Descriptor: Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.

Construct collaborative innovative nursing informatics for diverse communities for health promotion and disease management to  improve population outcomes.

Domain 4: Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline
Descriptor: The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.

Appraise evidence-based nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to improve and transform health care.

Domain 5: Quality and Safety Descriptor: Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Employ nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities that promotes quality and safety.

Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships Descriptor: Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.

Collaborate with interprofessional team members and stakeholders in the provision of nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to optimize outcomes.

Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice Descriptor: Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, and equitable care for diverse populations

Lead in the provision of nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to provide positive learning outcomes.

Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies Descriptor: Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.

Use informatics and healthcare technologies in accordance with best practices that demonstrate professional, regulatory, and ethical standards for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities to provide positive learning outcomes.

Domain 9: Professionalism Descriptor: Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional identity, including accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment, that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.

Integrate professionalism in nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families, and communities.

Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development Descriptor: Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being; contribute to lifelong learning; and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and the assertion of leadership.

Choose personal and professional developmental informatics activities that foster well-being and contribute to a culture of lifelong learning and leadership.