A nurse informaticist uses nursing knowledge to improve how healthcare organizations collect, use, share, and act on information. The work can include evaluating Electronic Health Records (EHR) and other clinical systems, analyzing healthcare data, redesigning workflows, supporting technology implementation, educating users, and examining how technology affects patient safety and quality.
The nursing perspective matters because a system can function as designed and still create problems for the people using it. Nurse informaticists bring clinical experience into decisions about documentation, data, tools, and technology adoption.
Herzing's nursing informatics curriculum reflects that range of responsibility, with study in clinical information systems, data governance, interoperability, emerging technologies, workflow optimization, analytics, implementation, and interdisciplinary leadership.
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