Syllabus for NUR-531-OL
NURSING INFORMATICS: Concepts and Issues
NURSING INFORMATICS: Concepts and Issues
Nursing Informatics combines knowledge and skills from nursing science, computer science, information science, and cognitive science to design and implement automated systems that support the nursing process in the delivery of health care services. Within this course major topics related to nursing informatics and related fields will be explored. Emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of how automation is used to manage information in health care and the nurse's role in the process. This graduate level overview course provides required informatics knowledge and skills for all MSN students as well as the foundation for all additional informatics courses.
After completing this course, the student will be able to do the following.
You will need the following materials to do the work of the course. The required textbook is available from the College's textbook supplier, MBS Direct.
Required Materials
American Nurses Association. (2008). Nursing informatics: Scope and standards of practice. Silver Spring, MD: Author. (ISBN 978-1-55810-256-9)
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author. (ISBN-13: 9781433805615)
Wager, K., Wickham, F., & Glaser, J. (2009). Healthcare information systems: A practical approach for healthcare management. San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons. (ISBN 978-0-470-38780-1)
Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Issues (NUR-531) is a three-credit online course, consisting of nine modules. Modules include an overview, topics, learning objectives, study materials, and assignments. Module titles are listed below.
Course objectives covered in this module include CO1,CO2, CO3, CO4, CO5, CO6, CO7, CO8
For your formal work in the course, you are required to participate in 15 online discussion forums (DF), seven independent learning activities (ILA) and complete six written assignments (WA). See below for more details.
Consult the course Calendar for assignment due dates.
Online Discussion Forums (DF)
You are required to participate in 13 graded discussion forums. Discussion forums are on a variety of topics associated with the course modules. There is also an ungraded but required introduction forum in module 1 and an ungraded but required reflection forum in week 12.
Located within the Evaluation Rubrics section of the course website is the online discussion forum rubric used to aid in the grading of all online discussion assignments.
For posting guidelines, discussion posting requirements particular to the nursing courses, and additional help, please see the Online Student Handbook and the Nursing Student Handbook located within the General Information section of the course Web site.
Independent Learning Activities (ILA)
You are required to complete seven, ungraded, Independent Learning Activities.
The details of, and requirements for, each of the ILAs is contained in the relevant modules under Assignments.
Go to the Submit Assignments area of the course Web site to submit all written assignments.
For additional help regarding preparing and submitting assignments, see the online Student Handbook and the Nursing Handbook located within the General Information section of the course Web site.
Written Assignments (WA)
You are required to complete six written assignments, with the first one ungraded.
- The first written assignment, WA 1, is a brief paper called Term Paper - Topic Selection. It is not graded separately, but it will be considered for the grade of the Term Paper (Assignment #6).
- The second written assignment, WA 2, is a paper called Establishing Goals, and is worth 15% of your final grade.
- The third written assignment, WA 3, is a paper called Input for a Job Description, and is worth 15% of your final grade.
- The fourth written assignment, WA 4, is a paper called Participating in a Life Cycle, and is worth 10% of your final grade.
- The fifth written assignment, WA 5, is a paper called Revising Privacy Policies, and is worth 10% of your final grade.
- The sixth written assignment, WA 6, is the course term paper and is called Term Paper, and is worth 25% of your final grade.
Located within the Evaluation Rubrics section of the course website are the written assignment rubrics used to aid in the grading of each written assignments.
See course Calendar for due dates.
Go to the Submit Assignments area of the course Web site to submit all written assignments.
For additional help regarding preparing and submitting assignments, see the online Student Handbook and the Nursing Handbook located within the General Information section of the course Web site.
Your grade in the course will be determined as follows:
All assignments will receive a numerical grade of 0–100. You will receive a score of 0 for any work not submitted. Your final grade in the course will be a letter grade. Letter grade equivalents for numerical grades are as follows:
| A | = | 93–100 |
| A– | = | 90–92 |
| B+ | = | 88–89 |
| B | = | 83–87 |
| B– | = | 80–82 |
| C+ | = | 78–79 |
| C | = | 73–77 |
| C– | = | 70–72 |
| D | = | 60–69 |
| F | = | Below 60 |
First Steps to Success
Study Tips
Consider the following study tips for success:
To stay on track throughout the course, begin each week by consulting the course Calendar. The calendar provides an overview of the course and indicates due dates for submitting assignments, posting discussions, and scheduling and taking examinations.