NUR (0302) 878 - Nursing Informatics for Advance Practice Nursing

Credits: 3.00

Students will explore the importance of representation of health information and data standardization in clinical information systems. The emphasize will be on understanding the functional, structural, and developmental specifics of the revisions of the health informatics classification systems such as DSM, ICD, SNOMED CT, DICOM, CCD and HL7.

Prerequisite 1: NUR 874 and NUR 875 and NUR 876 and NUR 877
Course Learning Goals: Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
•   Describe the history, purpose, and use of various health informatics coding and classification systems.
•   Identify the structural, functional, and developmental specifics of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS).
•   Describe the history, purpose, and use of the International Classification Systems (ICD).
•   Identify the structural, developmental and functional specifics of the recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
•   Explain the relationship between the Continuity of Care Record (CCR) and the Continuity of Care Document (CCD).
•   Identify and pinpoint potential errors that originates from the informatics system such as medication labeling errors and improve safety.