Overview
Enrolling in the online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus with a concentration in Health Care Informatics is a great way to combine your clinical expertise as a nurse with your interest in clinical informatics. As an interdisciplinary profession, the discipline is built upon health care and contributes to the fields of computer and information science, decision, management, and cognitive sciences as well as organizational theory.
When you enroll in the MS in Nursing program through CU Online, you complete your MS in core graduate nursing, core informatics and six credits of specialty informatics courses. This program allows you to complete your degree in two years and empowers you to either start a new career or move forward in the one you already have. If you are passionate about nursing but want to add exciting opportunities for growth and professional development, this is the program for you.
Program Details
When you apply to complete your online MS in Nursing with a concentration in Healthcare Informatics through CU Anschutz, you can trust that you are making a great professional decision. Our graduates seek career opportunities in hospitals, primary care facilities, specialist offices, health technology companies, and consulting firms.
We are a fully accredited program through the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). In addition, we have been offering online nursing degrees for more than twenty years, and we provide outstanding instruction that is determined by your own background and experience. Instead of teaching through video lectures and narrated presentations, we provide learning guides to take you through the content for each course and show you how to achieve the learning outcomes. The learning guide is tailored for those who are new to the field and those that may already be practicing in informatics. Based on your existing knowledge and familiarity with the topic at hand, each learner creates their own learning pathway to achieve course outcomes.
The curriculum provides students with the essential knowledge and skills for an informatics specialist role. It is built upon broad precepts and concepts from the American Nurses Association (ANA) Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice and the competencies and foundational domains put forth by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) for graduate-level education in health informatics.
The core informatics courses provide learners with a framework for information management and decision support, nursing and healthcare terminologies and the life cycle of an information system. A practicum that focuses on a particular role in informatics is also arranged in the learner’s own community. All of these components form the core structure of our informatics curriculum. In addition, learners select two specialty courses that round out their program plan. These specialty courses focus on database management, knowledge management, human-computer interaction design and digital health tools such as mobile apps, wearable sensors, patient portals, and smart houses.
