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Overview
Goals and Outcomes
Details
Accreditations
Overview
Overview

This course explores the role of the nurse informatician (commonly referred to as a nurse informaticist) and how it has evolved over time. It explains legislation that has spurred the adoption of electronic health records and the training of more health information technology professionals; it also explores the different settings in which nurse informaticists can work. Additionally, the course describes the educational preparation and the certifications available to nurses pursuing this specialty.

Goals and Outcomes
Goals and Learning Outcomes
The goal of this educational program is to provide nursing professionals with knowledge about nursing informatics as a nursing specialty and to provide information to those interested in pursuing informatics as a career.
 
After taking this course, you should be able to:
  • Describe the specialty of nursing informatics.
  • Discuss the relevance of this nursing specialty to healthcare reform initiatives and today’s high-tech health information environment.
  • Explain educational pathways and identify healthcare organizations and businesses that employ nurse informaticists.
Details
Course Details

CE821

Course Author

Sooa Devereaux

MSN, RN

Accreditations
Accreditations

NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791

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Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.

CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.