Nursing informatics play a valuable role in the delivery of healthcare and use of healthcare technology to achieve quality improvements, according to a position statement recently released by the ...

How Did We Get Here? When an individual makes a decision to become a nurse, the paths he/she can follow are well defined. Individuals enter a 4-year college or other program that qualifies them to ...

Slowly but surely, technology is invading every workplace in America. Now it’s nursing’s turn. Demand is growing rapidly for nurse informaticists, a role that combines traditional nursing with ...

Whende Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, got into nurse informatics 15 years ago at CHI Franciscan’s Highline Medical Center in Burien, Wash., but it wasn’t until recently she realized healthcare needs more nurses ...

Don’t let the indestructible demeanor of nurses fool you: Like other members of the healthcare team, they too have technological difficulties. “The public and nurses who are not informaticians may ...

Chief Nursing Informatics Officer Katie Barr explains her health system’s approach to artificial intelligence adoption to improve clinical workflows.

Nurse informaticists should have a greater role in health IT, HIMSS asserts in a new position statement. HIMSS also calls for improved informatics education for nurses. The statement reflects the ...

Nurse practitioners are playing an ever-growing role in the delivery of healthcare. They're vital members of the provider team. The future of the nurse practitioner profession looks bright, and ...

Sure, the mean annual salary doesn’t come close to the $169,000 you could make as certified registered nurse anesthetist (and face it, no nursing pay ever will), but informatics nurses are still in ...

We see this evolution play out in more specialized roles for nurses. After becoming a registered nurse, many choose to seek certification in a range of specialties to provide more comprehensive ...

The roles of nurse informaticists, as self-defined in this survey, support this definition. Two thirds of respondents (67%) identified systems implementation, which includes training, supporting, and ...