Home/College Degrees and Programs/Online Master’s In Nursing: Health Informatics Emphasis Scientific Underpinnings for Practice -Graduates of Grand Canyon University's Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphasis in Health Informatics program will be able to integrate theory, research, and evidence, and translate new knowledge into practice to improve processes, health care delivery, and outcomes for patients and populations.
- Translate research and knowledge gained from practice, while adhering to ethical research standards, to improve patient outcomes and clinical practice.
- Apply theory and research-based knowledge from nursing, the arts, humanities, and other sciences.
- Demonstrate clinical judgment founded on a broad knowledge base.
Person-Centered Care -Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.
- Examine financially sound health care policy that incorporates the nursing perspective and relevant ethical, legal, and political factors.
- Determine advocacy strategies for improving access, quality, and cost-effective health care for diverse populations.
- Integrate assessment skills in practice.
- Diagnose actual or potential health problems and needs.
Systems, Safety, and Quality -Graduates of Grand Canyon University's Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphasis in Health Informatics program possess skills to assess information, systems, processes, and practice in order to identify gaps and propose and implement solutions to clinical problems based on the best available evidence.
- Manage population health.
- Engage in effective partnerships.
- Integrate appropriate information and communication technologies to improve nursing practice and care delivery for individuals and populations.
- Advance equitable population health policy.
- Demonstrate advocacy strategies.
Scholarship for the Nursing Discipline -The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
- Synthesize nursing science, determinants of health, and epidemiologic, genomic, and genetic data in the management of population health.
- Integrate best evidence into nursing practice.
- Promote the ethical conduct of scholarly activities.
Quality and Safety -Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
- Design ethically sound, evidence-based solutions to complex health care issues related to individuals, populations, and systems of care.
- Contribute to a culture of patient safety.
- Evaluate professional organizations and activities that improve one’s practice and influence advanced nursing practice.
Interprofessional Partnerships -Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.
- Perform acceptance testing, integration testing of new systems, and testing of system enhancements.
- Perform effectively in different team roles, using principles and values of team dynamics.
- Use knowledge of nursing and other professions to address healthcare needs.
- Work with other professions to maintain a climate of mutual learning, respect, and shared values.
Develop a plan of care.
Demonstrate accountability for care delivery.Evaluate outcomes of care.Promote self-care management.Provide care coordination.Advance preparedness to protect population health during disasters and public health emergencies.
Analyze and interpret health-related data for the purposes of improving health care services and health-related outcomes and promoting wellness among populations.
Assess the information needs of end users in order to assist in the acquisition of relevant data.Analyze clinical workflow and apply process modeling techniques to support improved use of information and clinical decision making.Apply appropriate analytical methods and processes in the design of informatics-related research projects.Present health care data and information using effective visualization techniques.Apply project management strategies to plan, budget, and communicate project plans to organizational stakeholders.Systems-Based Practice -Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
- Apply knowledge of systems to work effectively across the continuum of care.
- Incorporate consideration of cost-effectiveness of care.
- Optimize system effectiveness through application of innovation and evidence-based practice.
Informatics and Healthcare Technologies -Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.
- Describe the various information and communication technology tools used in the care of patients,communities, and populations.
- Use information and communication technology to gather data, create information, and generateknowledge.
- Use information and communication technologies and informatics processes to deliver safe nursing care to diverse populations in a variety of settings.
- Use information and communication technology to support documentation of care and communication among providers, patients, and all system levels.
- Use information and communication technologies in accordance with ethical, legal, professional, and regulatory standards, and workplace policies in the delivery of care.
Professionalism -Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
- Demonstrate an ethical comportment in one’s practice reflective of nursing’s mission to society.
- Employ participatory approach to nursing care.
- Demonstrate accountability to the individual, society, and the profession.
- Comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations.
- Demonstrate the professional identity of nursing.
- Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion as core to one’s professional identity.
Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development -Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.
- Demonstrate a commitment to personal health and well-being.
- Demonstrate a spirit of inquiry that fosters flexibility and professional maturity.
- Develop capacity for leadership.
