Certificate Program for Nurse Educators in Healthcare Informatics

[rninformatics, DNP, RN]

See below, received from one of my listserve groups.

Enjoy!

Angela

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Dear Colleagues:

>

> We are pleased to announce a new course and a certificate program for nurse

> educators in health care informatics.

>

> We have some spaces open for the fall offering.

>

> Informatics knowledge and skills are necessary for the next generation of

> nurse to practice. Both AACN and NLN recognize the importance of informatics

> in nursing curriculum. Informatics is a core essential for DNP programs and

> has also been incorporated in the newly revised baccalaureate Essentials

> draft. The recent NLN Position Statement on Preparing the Next Generation of

> Nurses to Practice in a Technology-Rich Environment

> (http://www.nln.org/aboutnln/PositionSTatements/index.htm) calls upon

> educators to increase their knowledge of informatics and begin the

> integration of informatics concepts, knowledge and skills into nursing

> programs at all levels.

>

> To help meet these requirements, the University of Colorado Denver is

> offering a 3 credit, online, graduate level course entitled Foundations of

> Health Care Informatics. This course focuses on core concepts, skills and

> tools that define the informatics field, including the examination of health

> information technologies to promote safety, improvement of quality and

> fostering consumer centered care and efficiency.

>

> The learning activities and outcome assessments are designed to allow nurse

> educators to create content and learning activities that can be incorporated

> into their nursing curriculum.

>

> This course is offered as a one of the courses in the new Nurse Educator

> Certificate in Health Care Informatics. The Nurse Educator Certificate in

> Health Care Informatics is a 9 credit certificate program offered through

> the Office of Professional Development. In addition to this introductory

> course, students will choose two additional specialty courses from a wide

> variety of informatics courses offered at the graduate level. For more

> information please contact: [email protected].

>

> Diane J. Skiba, PhD Professor College of Nursing and Michael G. Kahn, MD,

> PhD, Associate Professor, School of Medicine at the University of Colorado,

> are the instructors for the Foundations of Health Care Informatics Course.

> The course is available entirely online

>

> The cost of the course is: $1450 which includes a $100 online fee and $75

> administrative fee. There is also a one-time fee of $140 (which is NOT

> included in the above cost) for first time students.

>

> The course begins August 25, 2008 and ends December 12, 2008

>

> To register, please complete the non-degree application and registration

> forms online at http://hschealth.uchsc.edu/son/grad/off_prof_dev.htm. For

> more information contact [email protected].

>