# NUR581 Healthcare Technologies

College of Nursing Nursing Department

**Course Description:** This course provides a focus on the use of technology in the healthcare environment and nursing education programs. Topics discussed in this course include computer science, computer and information science, an introduction to regulatory standards for electronic data and monitoring systems, legal and ethical applications for nursing informatics, administrative information systems, telehealth, consumer information and education, simulation, emerging technologies and the future of nursing informatics.

**Credit Hours:** 3.00

**Prerequisites:** None

**Corequisites:** None

## Programs offering this course

- [Nursing (MS) | Concentration in Family Nurse Practitioner](https://www.ecpi.edu/programs/family-nurse-practioner-nursing-master-degree)
- [Nursing (MS) | Concentration in Nursing Education](https://www.ecpi.edu/programs/nursing-education-master-degree)

Learn more about the [programs available at ECPI University](https://www.ecpi.edu/programs).