Description: Lecture, two hours. Requisite: doctoral standing. Prepares students to obtain knowledge and skills related to information technology and patient care technology. Prepares DNP graduates to apply new knowledge, manage individual and aggregate information, and assess efficacy of patient care technology appropriate to specialized area of practice. Allows students to use information technology/system resources to implement quality improvement initiatives, support practice administrative decision-making. Students gain ability to demonstrate conceptual and technical skills to develop and execute evaluation plan involving data extraction from practice systems and databases. Letter grading.

Units: 2.0