This course introduces students to the application of research and information technology in the nursing and evidence-based practice. Students identify the ways information systems and patient care technologies have contributed to improved patient outcomes; evaluate the safeguards, secure practices, and ethical standards needed to promote and support data security, patient confidentiality, and regulatory requirements; and explore effective use of patient care technologies, communication systems, and information systems across the health-illness continuum. Students also examine ethics in nursing research and scholarship and the relationships among theory, research, and behavior in the application of evidence-based nursing practice.