Nursing Research and Informatics Course Competencies

Identify the way health informatics and new technologies have impacted and improved patient outcomes.
Evaluate the safeguards and ethical standards needed to promote and support data security, patient confidentiality and regulatory requirements.
Explore the effective use of patient care technologies, communication systems, and information systems across the health-illness continuum.
Examine ethics in nursing research and scholarship and the relationships between theory, research, and behavior in the application of evidence-based nursing practice.