Advanced nursing practice in informatics is often systems-focused rather than bedside-focused. It can involve analyzing healthcare data, evaluating clinical information systems, improving workflows, directing technology implementation, developing data-governance strategies, assessing AI and decision-support tools, leading change, and measuring effects on patient and organizational outcomes.
Importantly, advanced nursing practice is not synonymous with being an APRN or nurse practitioner. CCNE's nursing education standards identify informatics as an example of an advanced nursing practice specialty, alongside areas such as leadership/administration and population health, while APRN roles are addressed separately.
Herzing's nursing informatics outcomes reflect that systems-level definition of practice. Students learn to support system design and clinical decision-making, analyze data, evaluate technologies and AI, coordinate implementation and governance, and lead interdisciplinary change.
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