Nursing informatics
- Define nursing informatics and contrast with the definition of health informatics.
- Explore the reasons for nurses needing to have nursing informatics as a foundational skill.
- Explore the guiding principles that nurses need to follow as it pertains to nursing informatics.
- Explore quality and patient safety education links to nursing informatics.
- Discuss common nursing informatics roles in Canada
- Discuss the CNA Nursing Informatics guidelines
- Discuss CASN’s Nursing Informatics guideline
- Explore the essential hardware components of a computer
- Explore the basic operations of the central processing unit (CPU)
- Describe common computer input, output, and storage devices
- Explore computer network hardware and their functions
- 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

