Nursing Informatics Curriculum
The nursing informatics concentration may be completed on a full or part-time basis. The nursing informatics core serves as a basis for increasing the students’ knowledge of nursing theory and research, healthcare outcomes, and nursing informatics. The nursing informatics core includes course work in introduction to informatics, clinical information systems, database management, and consumer health informatics. The curriculum includes a cognate course in data analysis or systems analysis. The cognate course may be taken outside the School of Nursing. Practica are designed to enhance the students' active participation in a selected informatics role. Completion of this program fulfills the requirements for eligibility for the American Nurses Credentialing Center Nursing Informatics certification exam.
Fall Term (Year 1)
- NURSP 2075 Introduction to Health Informatics 3 cr.
- NURSP 2070 Information Technology Project Management 3 cr.
- NUR 2011 Applied Statistics for Evidence-Based Practice 3 cr.
Spring Term (Year 1)
- NURSP 2076 Clinical Information Systems 3 cr.
- NUR 2000 Research for Evidence-Based Practice 1 2 cr.
- NURSP 2090 Healthcare Outcomes 3 cr.
- NUR 2008 Ethics for Advanced Practice Nursing 0 cr.
- NUR 2009 Leadership and Healthcare Systems: Health Policy/Finance Module 0 cr.
Summer Term (Year 1)
- NUR 2007 Research for Evidence–Based Practice 2 2 cr.
- NURSP 2092 Leadership Development 3 cr.
- NUR 2002 Research Practicum* 2 cr.
Fall Term (Year 2)
- NURSP 2088 Introduction to Database Management Systems 3 cr.
- NURSP 2085 Nursing Informatics Practicum 1 3-4 cr.
- NUR 2010 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Culturally Diverse
Populations 3 cr.
Spring Term( Year 2)
- NURSP 2086 Nursing Informatics Practicum 2 3-4 cr.
- NURSP 2087 Internet and Health Informatics 3 cr.
- COGNATE: Data Analysis or Systems Analysis 3 cr.
- Comprehensive Exam
* Optional