Nursing Informatics

Unit code: HNO6006 | Study level: Postgraduate
Credit points
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
Location
VU Online
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit will enable students to take leading roles in digital healthcare to ensure technology is designed and used effectively to enhance their capacity to deliver superior and safer care. Students will learn about and practice health informatics skills to assess the usability of information systems and their alignment to nursing workflow, patient safety and information needs. By developing skills in data analytics and examining the adoption of nursing data standards including interoperability issues, students will analyse complex problems and formulate contextualised responses. Students will also examine issues related to the protection of privacy, confidentiality and security of health information and consider the potential usefulness of social networking tools in communicating health-related information.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. Review healthcare information systems, electronic health records and Telehealth, and examine their use in the delivery of nursing care;
  2. Debate issues related to evidenced-based nursing data capture and standards, retrieval and reuse into nursing practice in a selected domain of nursing;
  3. Devise analytical solutions to the presentation of nurse-sensitive data in a selected domain of nursing using relevant databases;
  4. Adapt and deliberate informatics concepts and approaches as they relate to specific biomedical and healthcare problems;
  5. Interrogate the utility of social media within the contexts of consumer health information, client education and professional practice; and
  6. Participate in an academic community through reflective and critical engagement in academic texts and understanding of principles of academic integrity.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Assignment
|
Grade: 10%
Health Care Information Systems (500 words)
Assessment type: Assignment
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Grade: 50%
Health informatics for nursing workflow, patient safety and information needs (2500 words)
Assessment type: Presentation
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Grade: 40%
Clinical decision support systems for a vulnerable patient (10-12mins)
Assessment type: Other
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Grade: 0%
Evidence of completion of the Academic Integrity Modules (Hurdle)

Required reading

Selected readings will be made available via the unit VU Collaborate site.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Graduate Certificate in Nursing Informatics Leadership
HTNI | Graduate certificate | Duration: 8 months
Master of Nursing
HMNG | Masters (coursework) degree | Duration: 2 years

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