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Spring 2025 Lecture
This course provides an introduction to human factors and ergonomics with a focus on healthcare applications. Fundamental principles will be introduced including the cognitive, physical, and social considerations that comprise human factors engineering. By course completion, students should be able to formulate studies of and/or evaluate the healthcare domain using these fundamentals principles of human factors engineering. Prerequisites: NUR 51000 or equivalent and Undergraduate Statistics course within the past five years.
Learning Outcomes1Identify human factors relevant to healthcare engineering.
2Describe ergonomic concepts applicable to healthcare engineering.
3Interpret research applicable to human factors and engineering.
4Apply the fundamental physical, cognitive, and organizational principles to the healthcare setting.
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