Nursing informatics

  1. Define nursing informatics and contrast with the definition of health informatics.
  2. Explore the reasons for nurses needing to have nursing informatics as a foundational skill.
  3. Explore the guiding principles that nurses need to follow as it pertains to nursing informatics.
  4. Explore quality and patient safety education links to nursing informatics.
  5. Discuss common nursing informatics roles in Canada
  6.  Discuss the CNA Nursing Informatics guidelines
  7. Discuss CASN’s Nursing Informatics guideline
  8. Explore the essential hardware components of a computer
  9. Explore the basic operations of the central processing unit (CPU)
  10. Describe common computer input, output, and storage devices
  11. Explore computer network hardware and their functions
  12. Discuss why it is important for nurses in the role of nursing informatics,  to know and understand the functionality of the basic computer and its hardware