A Practical Approach to Integrating a Telehealth Course and Health Informatics Skills Into a Curriculum for Advanced-Level Nursing Students

J Nurs Educ. 2024 Jun 21:1-4. doi: 10.3928/01484834-20240423-01. Online ahead of print.

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Telemedicine and health informatics are a common aspect of patient care delivery in the United States. Graduate-level nursing students must be knowledgeable of telehealth and health informatics prior to entering the workforce as an advanced practice nurse. Nursing educators must provide educational opportunities within the curriculum that focus on telehealth and health informatics concepts that align with competencies. The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education includes a new Domain #8 called, "Informatics and Healthcare Technologies," where five key subdomains of this competency are defined.

METHOD: This article describes the college's approach to incorporating telehealth and health informatics into the graduate-level curriculum and the associated alignment to the 2022 Essentials.

RESULTS: Faculty professional development and course revision strategies improved the infrastructure for teaching telehealth and health informatics.

CONCLUSION: The new Domain, #8, Informatics and Healthcare Technologies, can be successfully infused into the DNP curriculum with student engagement. [J Nurs Educ. 2024;63(X):XXX-XXX.].

PMID:38916867 | DOI:10.3928/01484834-20240423-01