Tehran University of Medical Sciences Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery Course title: Information Technology in Nursing Nursing PhD Course Two Units (34 hour) Course Plan lecturer: Asieh Darvish sedarvish@yahoo.com Introduction: Integration of information, technology and nursing has led to the development nursing in different aspects. It is required to introduce the applications of IT in nursing and challenges and opportunities. This course will provide theoretical information and practical skills in this regard to enhance knowledge and insight about the use of information technology to the medical science and nursing PhD students. Class Schedule: Week Subject title Lecturer Week 1 Definition of IT & new century terms Ms. Darvish Week 2 Fundamentals of Nursing Informatics, applications, challenges Ms. Darvish Internet tutorial- Introduction to databases and Ms. Darvish search engines- Googling Week 4 Complexity of human-computer interaction model Ms. Darvish *Week 3 Week 5 How to make alerts in google - Email management Ms. Darvish Week 6 Introduction of TUMS digital library Ms. Darvish Week 7 How to search pubmed? Ms. Darvish 1
*week3 Week 8 What is MeSH and it's application Ms. Darvish Week 9 Word processor, key points- Endnote Ms. Darvish Week 10 Introduction to international nursing databases Ms. Darvish Week 11 Medical Databases: Web of science JAMA,.. Ms. Darvish Week 12 Student Seminar presentation Ms. Darvish Week 13 Impact Factor Submit article in a journal Ms. Darvish Week 14 Medical journals Ms. Darvish Week 15 EBooks- Ejournals Ms. Darvish Week 16 Introduction of useful websites Ms. Darvish How to search the web How to Evaluate Quality of Information on the web Recommended Search Strategy Syllabus: - Information Technology Fundamentals Definition & history Key terms- Information Technology (data, information, knowledge,, wisdom, expert, knowledge management), health informatics, ehealth, Medical informatics, imaging informatics, nursing informatics, e-commerce, data mining,. - Bioinformatics definition Genomics Proteomics - IT applications in nursing education, research, practice and management e-learning (CNE, graduation,.self improvement, patient education, ) Telecommunications, telenursing(monitoring- consultation-.), tools and softwares for teleneursing 2
Evaluation & resource management by the use of IT & information systems Improve accuracy & comprehensiveness of research- more articles and research are accessible - IT implementing requirements - Challenges Networks-internet- software -hardware, standards,. Patient Privacy and Advocacy- Ethical & legal Issues Ehealth literacysocial challenges,.. - Human-computer interaction Theory & model Complexity of Human-computer interaction - Information systems in health care profession DSS, HIS, KMS, NIS, NOC, NIC, - Hospital information system Definition, Elements, subsystems, applications, challenges and benefits - Virtual hospital - Standards - Learning more about the world wide web Internet & history- intranet browsers- IE- buttons- internet options- Invisible Web - Internet search tutorial Finding information on the web Search Engines Subject Directories 3
Meta-Search Engines Search Tools and Methods Google and key notes (translate- image- books- directory-scholar ) Keywords Operators Comments Evaluation of Internet Resources Nursing & medical databases AND journals introduction and key notes to a successful search Such as nursing index, nursing consult, nursing skills, CINHAL, Pubmed, Scopus, Proquest, MD consult, science direct,.. Search articles in Persian databases: SID, Medlib, Iranmedex, Magiran,.. - The applications of computer in nursing Windows Data storing and processing and retrieving Viruses- data access and security Introduce different file formats Key notes about Word Processing (TOC, citation, ) Presentation slides & key notes (hyperlink,transition, slide master, design,..) Reference management - Internet communication tools - Email management Compose and receive messages Know how to manage folders and addresses 4
Register for a free web-based e-mail account - Discussion groups - Videoconference - Introduce useful websites for nursing students - Future of Nursing Informatics - Evaluation: Seminar- class quizzes final assignments Resources: Class quizzes 4 Seminar presentation 6 Article * 2 Three assignments 10 Total 20 *: optional Students should be active to do class exercises in IT class, pass 4 quizzes and prepare related seminar and assignments. 1. Hebda T, Czar P. Handbook of informatics for nurses & healthcare professionals. 5th ed. Boston: Pearson; 2013. 2. Saba VK, McCormick KA. Essentials of nursing informatics. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical; 2011. 3. Ball MJ, Hannah KJ. Nursing informatics : where technology and caring meet. 4th ed. London ; New York: Springer; 2011. 4. Fong B, Fong ACM, Li CK. Telemedicine technologies : information technologies in medicine and telehealth. Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons; 2010. 5. Kumar S, Snooks H. Telenursing. London: Springer; 2011. 6. Shortliffe EH, Cimino JJ. Biomedical informatics : computer applications in health care and biomedicine. 3rd ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2006. More resources: Available related articles & books- NI associations- MI associations *************************************** 5