NURS 458Ethical Challenges in Healthcare Informatics

3 credits · Nursing · Penn State

A case based collaboratory designed for the exploration and analysis of the ethical dilemmas facing healthcare informatics practitioners. NURS 458 focuses on the challenges associated with managing private healthcare information as health informatics technologies evolve. Students explore and apply principles of ethical decision-making and professional codes of conduct and laws governing information privacy to selected case scenarios and then compare and contrast their reasoning with expert opinions. Students gain an appreciation for the benefits of healthcare technologies and the potential for inadvertent and negligent breaches in information security.