Content area
Background
Telemedicine and health informatics are a common aspect of patient care delivery in the United States. Graduate-level nursing students must be knowledgeable of telehealth and health informatics prior to entering the workforce as an advanced practice nurse. Nursing educators must provide educational opportunities within the curriculum that focus on telehealth and health informatics concepts that align with competencies. The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education includes a new Domain #8 called, “Informatics and Healthcare Technologies,” where five key subdomains of this competency are defined.
Method
This article describes the college's approach to incorporating telehealth and health informatics into the graduate-level curriculum and the associated alignment to the 2022 Essentials.
Results
Faculty professional development and course revision strategies improved the infrastructure for teaching telehealth and health informatics.
Conclusion
The new Domain, #8, Informatics and Healthcare Technologies, can be successfully infused into the DNP curriculum with student engagement. [J Nurs Educ. 2025;64(3):196–199.]
Details
Course Descriptions;
Independent Study;
Curriculum Development;
College Faculty;
Faculty Development;
Course Evaluation;
Evidence Based Practice;
Decision Making Skills;
National Organizations;
Core Curriculum;
Course Content;
Learner Engagement;
Educational Strategies;
Decision Support Systems;
Educational Development;
Competence;
Educational Resources;
Influence of Technology;
Information Science;
Educational Methods;
Elective Courses;
Computer Mediated Communication;
Educational Experience;
COVID-19
Curricula;
Communication;
Telemedicine;
Nurse practitioners;
Web portals;
Health informatics;
COVID-19;
Didacticism;
Professionals;
Coronaviruses;
Independent study;
Nursing education;
Health care delivery;
Leadership;
Colleges & universities;
Skills;
Educational objectives;
Nursing care;
Clinical decision making;
Communications technology;
Information technology;
Intensive care