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
Offered
202002