Advanced Professional Certificate in Nursing Informatics

Date: On Demand

Duration: 18 Days

Course Objectives

This Advanced Professional Certificate will equip learners with the following competencies:

  • Understand the inter-relation among Computer Science, Information Science and Health Science to support the management and processing of data, information and knowledge in healthcare delivery.
  • Apply Health Informatics to advance healthcare delivery and practice to ultimately improve patient outcomes.
  • Understand the importance of data to a healthcare institution for operations and planning, evaluation of performance goals and improvement of service and patient care.
  • Learn the tools and techniques to clean, process, analyse and interpret various categories of healthcare analytics.
  • Discuss how information system security affects privacy, confidentiality, and security.
  • Discuss the impact that Internet technology has on the security of health-related information.
  • Apply the various models and tools learnt in Digital Project Management.
  • Understand Requirements Management in relations to planning and executing digital projects.

Job Role Readiness

It will prepare learners in the following job roles to perform their responsibilities more effectively

  • Healthcare informaticians, IT, Nurses, supporting staff and healthcare software providers.
  • Nursing and clinical employees who are responsible for improving, clinical, patients and delivery processes.

Who Should Attend

  • Healthcare Professionals
  • Nurses

Prerequisites

At least a polytechnic diploma (or equivalent)

Course Conveners

(Click their photos to view their short biographies)

ccccc Danny Poo

Assoc Prof Danny PooAssoc Prof Danny Poo

ddddd Lek Hsiang Hui

Dr Lek Hsiang HuiDr Lek Hsiang Hui

Training Roadmap

Stage 1: Professional Certificate in Healthcare Computational Systems

Curriculum:

Stage 2 (with Stage 1 as prerequisite): Professional Certificate in Healthcare Analytics and Storytelling

Curriculum:

Stage 3 (with Stage 1 and 2 as prerequisites): Professional Certificate in Health Information Management (6 Days)

Curriculum:

Stage 4 (with Stage 1 to 3 as prerequisites): Advanced Professional Certificate in Nursing Informatics

Completion of Stage 1 to 3 curriculum earns the participant an Advanced Professional Certificate in this programme

Participants must fulfill at least 75% attendance and pass all assessment components, to be eligible for SSG funding.

To enquire, email soc-ace@nus.edu.sg

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