Mar 28, 2024  
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog 
    
2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Nursing Practice-Nursing Informatics and e-Health (M.S.N.) Program will begin Fall 2021


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*Program will be offered beginning Fall 2021.

Admissions Information  

The Master of Science in Nursing with Nursing Informatics and e-Health specialization is one of four in the nation and meets the growing demand for nurses who have advanced preparation in informatics, health care technologies, analytics and e-Health. This program is flexible and draws on the strengths of the university including distance delivery, use of technologies and inter-professional approaches.

This master’s program specializes and prepares you in the science of how to use data, information systems and health care technologies to direct patient care, improve the delivery of services and lead transformative practice and organizational change. Coursework provides a foundation for nurses in advance practice roles. It utilizes contemporary nursing concepts to develop leadership capacity in informatics and technology, health care business for the
digital economy and utilization of evidence-based practice to clinical and system improvement.

Master of Science in Nursing-Nursing Informatics and e-Health (M.S.N.): Total 33 credit hours


##Program will be offered beginning Fall 2021

Admissions Requirements

Required Courses in Major Area: 33 credit hours


Student Learning Outcomes


  1. Develop knowledge and skill in informatics and health care communication technologies
    as a foundation to nursing practice.
  2. Develop knowledge and skills in tools, method and theories of informatics and healthcare
    technologies to support and inform practice improvement activities, change processes,
    and system reliability and workflow.
  3. Intervene at System and population level through policy development to promote safety,
    cost effectiveness and ethical principles and standards for use of information and health
    technology.
  4. Apply evidence-based practice to informatics solutions in population health and clinical
    and system improvement.
  5. Integrate informatics and healthcare technology to organizational and system leadership
    principles. 
  6. Apply broad organizational, interprofessional, client-centered and culturally appropriate
    healthcare technologies and informatics in planning, delivery, management and
    evaluation of evidence-based clinical prevention and population healthcare services to
    individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations. 
  7. Demonstrate knowledge and skill in system design life cycle, system usability and human
    interaction and healthcare data management, analysis, application and transformation. 
  8. Demonstrate knowledge and skills in applying rules, regulations and requirements of
    information technology.

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