5 credits
In this course, students will explore the technical landscape of modern nursing practice, the factors impacting the push to integrate informatics competencies as foundational practice concepts, and how to best function in the domain where technology education and traditional nursing education form partnerships for instruction. Students will investigate emerging technologies and care models that may impact their general approach to education, as well as the role of technology in those models. Upon successful completion of the course, students will possess the proficiencies and professional dispositions required to educate—and meet the global demand for—technology-savvy nurses from the start of nursing school through their evolution to an expert-level clinician.