Graduate Catalog

NURS 836

Reflects the central role of decision science in utilizing nursing informatics to improve patient care. Analyzes selected decision science theories and relevant research that supports and directs the field of nursing informatics. Decision sciences include statistically based models of clinical judgment, information processing theory of clinical judgment and theories for knowledge and skill acquisition. Case simulations, protocol analysis, knowledge engineering, decision analysis models, grounded theory, neural networks and ways of knowing are evaluated for their usefulness to nursing informatics. Prerequisites: NURS 737, NURS 840, NURS 850 and NURS 851

Credits

3

Offered

202002