Undergraduate Computer Skills Requirements

College of Nursing

Undergraduate degree programs	Computer skills required of graduates	Where in curriculum students are taught computer skills	Procedures to ensure program graduates possess computer skills required
BSN Nursing	-Basic Keyboarding -Computerized Patient Charting -Computerized Medical Equipment -Computer Aided Instruction (CAI) -Interactive Video Disc (IVD) -e-mail -Listserv -Word Processing -PowerPoint -World Wide Web (for assignments, etc.) -Internet Searches -Database Searches	NURS 110 CAI-Food Processor Nutritional Analysis, Web Page NURS 210 IVD-Therapeutic Communication NURS 212 IVD-Ethical Dilemma NURS 220 CAI-Food Processor Nutritional Analysis, Web Page NURS 223 Web Page, Data Base Search NURS 250 Web Page NURS 309 IVD-Mosby Physical Assessment NURS 316 Web Page NURS 322 CAI-IV Therapy, Computerized Patient Charting, Computerized Medical Equipment, Papers and Case Studies, Presentations NURS 323 CAI-NCLEX Review, Web Page, Computerized Patient Charting, Computerized Medical Equipment, Papers and Case Studies, Presentations NURS 403 Papers, Presentations NURS 410 CAI-Understanding Nursing Research, Data Base Search, Papers, Presentations NURS 414 IVD-IV Therapy NURS 415 CAI-Pediatric Nursing Challenge, Papers and Case Studies, Computerized Patient Charting, Computerized Medical Equipment NURS 427 Computerized Patient Charting, Computerized Medical Equipment NURS 428 Web Page, Internet Search, Listserv, Papers, Computerized Patient Charting	-Orientations to computer programs, CAI, IVD, Web Page, e-mail, Listservs, Internet searches, and Database searches conducted by the Information Resource Center in informal classes. -Orientation to hospital computerized patient charting and computerized medical equipment during orientation to clinicals at the agencies. -Students must have e-mail accounts to check regularly. -Papers and Case Studies required on word processing programs. -Presentations utilizing PowerPoint. -Completion of CAIs and IVDs.