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2022-2023 Westminster College Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Westminster College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

NURS 370 - Nursing Informatics

Semester Hours: 4

This course enhances the student’s understanding of technology in healthcare and introduced the specialty field of nursing informatics.  Topics covered include the basics of nursing informatics, healthcare perspectives of technology, and the future of nursing informatics as well as administrative, healthcare delivery, education, and research applications.  Technological advances and changes to the healthcare arena, such as the contribution of informatics to quality improvement efforts, benefits to improving interprofessional communication and advancements in pandemic responses are additional themes of the course.  

Prerequisite: NURS 101

NURS 102

NURS 201
When Offered: Every year