UNIVERSITY OF LA SALETTE

GRADUATE SCHOOL
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING
COURSE NO:
MSN 810 SP
COURSE NAME: CLINICAL DATA MANAGEMENT
SCHEDULE:
EVERY SATURDAY 7:00-10:00 AM
PROFESSOR:
SUSAN LOIDA SANTIAG0-SORIANO, MSN
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to give students the tools to work in a front office
medical setting, including the necessary skills of communication, managing
multi-line phones, and professionalism. It will also provide the learner with
the fundamental knowledge for initiating and managing a paper and
electronic medical records. This course is designed to introduce the student
to the basics of medical records management.
Furthermore, this course provides the student with the opportunity to put
administrative skills learned in previous coursework into practice in a
simulated medical setting using electronic health care records (EHR) and
allows the student to learn about EHR management practices.
COURSE CREDITS:
This course is given a weight of three graduate units.
COURSE PLACEMENT:
This Nursing module is a tool provided in the hospital management system
software to the nurses to manage their routine tasks with the objective of improving
patient care. It is tightly integrated with the Inpatient module and other clinical
modules for smooth flow of information.

Some of the features of this course are:

Patient Charting: A patients vital signs, admission and nursing
assessments and nursing notes can be entered into the system. These
are the stored in a central repository and retrieved when needed.
Staff Schedules: Nurse can self-schedule their shifts using scheduling
rules provided in shift modules. The shifts can later be confirmed or
changed by a scheduling coordinator or manager.
Clinical Data Integration: Here clinical information from all the
disciplines can be retrieved, viewed and analysed by nursing staff.
Improved workload functionality: Staffing levels and appropriate
skill mix per shift can be more easily determined by the shift modules.

Better care planning: Time spent on care planning is reduced, while

the quality of what is recorded is improved. This makes for more
complete care plans and more complete assessments and evaluations.
Better drug administration: Electronically prescribed drugs are
more legible, thus making it less likely that drugs would be wrongly
administered to patients.
The Nursing module comprises of the following features:
Nurse duty roster
Change in duty roster
Medical observations
Patient activity charting
Task Allocation (general)
Recording vitals, nursing notes
Recording dispensing of medicine

PLAN OF COURSE WORK:

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the ability to
define operational and strategic objectives for health services management
information systems and to guide the design of systems to meet those
objectives. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the conceptualization of
variables to be included in such systems; the design of systems (including an
understanding of the hardware, software and communication links); and the
proper interpretation and utilization of processed information for program
management purposes.
Software for employee management will be
addressed; and software for clinical data collection, storage and patient
management (including the maintenance of confidentiality) will also be
addressed.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
After completion of the course, the students are expected to:
1.1 Explain the functions of computerized information systems
designed for the
management of health services programs;
1.2 Analyze health services management objectives and translate
them into output
requirements, while integrating clinical and business
information;
1.3 Define data quality control tools and system protection from
viruses, spyware and botnets;
1.4
Describe the operation of computers, input/output devices,
secondary storage
devices, and communication networks which
support information systems;
1.5 Compare the costs and benefits of various types of health care
data processing
systems, and make decisions concerning the
purchase and use of such systems;

1.6 Understand the features of software designed for health care

personnel
management, facilities management, equipment
management and supply chain
management;
1.7 Understand the features of software designed for electronic
medical records,
automated patient scheduling, automated prescription
generation, and other health care clinical functions;
1.8 Explain medical records privacy and ethical issues related to
patient information; use data encryption tools, digital signatures and other
user authentication methods to protect medical records privacy.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS:
Written Output
Requirements
Final Exam
Class Attendance

-25%
-25%
-25%
-25%
-------100%

COURSE OUTLINE:
SESSION
TOPIC
4/28/12
Introduction to the Course; Operational and Strategic Uses
of
Information Systems in Health Care Management and
Health
Insurance;
5/5/12
Medical Records Privacy and Ethical Issues Related
to Patient
Information;
Data Encryption and Digital Signatures; Other
Methods of User Authentication
5/12/12
Hospital Information System; Clinical information System;
Nursing Information system; Database, records and Fields
Clinical Terms:
Understand the structure of the clinical terms
Hierarchy
Add clinical terms using templates, synonyms and the
Access screen
Understand how and when clinical terms are updated
Manage clinical terms
Understand clinical term abbreviations
5/19/12
Medical Records:
Understand the structure/layout of the medical record
Use the medical record summary screen
Add/view data in a medical record
Use menu option in a medical record
Understand problem management

 View linked medication

Use patient alerts
Add and edit a major alert message
Perform a clinical data audit trail
Print a patient summary
Building, Editing & Managing Templates:
Understand and use EMIS distributed templates
Understand the template edit layout
Edit prompt rules
Define picking lists
Delete/add/insert prompts
Add/insert sub templates
Edit and use template diagnosis
Add/move/delete templates
Import and export templates from disk
Passing of Outputs and Final Examination

5/26/12

6/2/12
METHODOLOGY:

REFERENCES:

Lecture/Discussion
Written Assignment
System Analysis
Reporting
Online Discussion and Submission of requirements

The Internet using the Google Search Engine

Eckman, B.A., et al., Varieties of Interoperability in the
Transformation
of
the
Health
Care
Information
Infrastructure, IBM Systems Journal, 46(1), 2006.
Electronic Privacy Information Center, Medical Privacy,"
http://www.epic.org/privacy/medical/default.html,
2007,
20pp.
Austin, Charles J. and Stuart B. Boxerman, Information
Systems for Health Care Management, Sixth Edition,
(Chicago: Health Administration Press), 2003.
Electronic Health Records: Understanding and Using Computerized Medical
Records by R. Gartee.

SPECIAL TECHNOLOGY UTILIZED BY STUDENTS

Students are required to complete this course utilizing the

equivalent of a cable-speed modem. Completing the course
modules via a telephone dial-up connection will not be possible given
the audio-visual content.

Microsoft Office 2007 will be used for some activities. Students have
access to Microsoft Office 2007 via eDesktop.

Students will need to use the FireFox web browser for most course
activities within eLearning.

Notepad or similar text editor is suggested for gathering your

discussion posts.

EVALUATION:
SKILL
MASTERY
LEVEL

INTEGRITY/VALUES

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Exceeds
Expectations
(Very Good to
Excellent)

Student has a clearly defined

sense of the value of EHR
research and related ethical
issues. Student can articulate
and defend arguments with
specificity.

Student consistently
demonstrates clarity of
thought process, ability to
communicate well with team
members, and consistently
demonstrates abilities and
understanding that surpass
expected average.

Meets
Expectations
(Satisfactory)

Student demonstrates
adequate awareness of the
value of EHR research and
related ethical issues.
Student can articulate and
defend arguments, but lacks
some specificity.

Student has adequate

communication skills and
demonstrates basic level of
understanding of project
management, however,
these abilities rarely surpass
expectations.

Below
Student does not
Expectations
demonstrate adequate
(Unsatisfactory) awareness of the value of
EHR research and related
ethical issues, or student is
unable to articulate and
defend arguments with any
specificity.

Student demonstrates poor

communication skills with
class members or
demonstrates a critical
inability to grasp central
concepts, execute
technologies, or think
logically to synthesize
appropriate conclusions.

Prepared by:
SUSAN LOIDA SANTIAGO-SORIANO, MSN
Q. DOLAR, MS
Professor

Approved by:
REV. FR. PEDRO
Dean-Graduate School