title: Data as textbook.
abstract: Hospital information systems have been collecting patient-related data systematically for years. This article describes a course developed at the Yale University School of Nursing that uses hospital data as "textbook" to teach graduate nursing students to navigate a large hospital data set, enabling a multitude of nursing questions to be addressed. The approach used in this course is easily transferrable to the practice setting as demonstrated by the authors. Through understanding patient-level data, their aggregate patterns, and overall database construction, nurses can expand their contributions to clinical practice and management.
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authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Pollack
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Diers
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000193:education; D013782:Textbooks as Topic