Center for
Nursing Informatics
Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMI
Dean and Professor
Co-Director of the Center for Nursing Informatics
September 22, 2014
Welcome!
• Foster collaboration to support nursing
informatics scholarship
• Examine career opportunities with an advanced
education in nursing informatics
• Obtain information about the current state for
meeting the Minnesota recommendation for
implementing standardized terminologies across
all settings
• Contribute ideas to implement the state-wide
recommendation
Our vision for a transformed health
system
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Vision - Learning Health System
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A system that is designed to generate and apply the best evidence for the
collaborative health care choices of each patient and provider; to drive the
process of new discovery as a natural outgrowth of patient care; and to ensure
innovation, quality, safety, and value in health care. (Charter of the Institute of
Medicine Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care)
Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
2011 - 2015
HealthIT.gov
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NEXUS
Data
Evidence
Information
What is nursing informatics?
• Nursing Informatics is:
– The “science and practice (that) integrates nursing,
its information and knowledge, with management
of information and communication technologies to
promote the health of people, families, and
communities worldwide” (IMIA Special Interest
Group on Nursing Informatics 2009).
School of Nursing
• The third largest Doctor of Nursing Practice
program in the country
• First school of nursing in the nation to offer
Doctor of Nursing Practice program in Nursing
Informatics
• Ranked 15th nationally in funding from the
National Institutes of Health
School of Nursing
• The Center for Nursing Informatics at the School
of Nursing connects students and faculty through
collaborations with local, national and
international partnerships, including:
– The University of Minnesota Biomedical Health
Informatics
– The International Council of Nursing’s eHealth
– The Minnesota Omaha System Partnership
What can you do with a degree?
• A Doctor of Nursing Practice or a PhD degree
with a nursing informatics specialty focus
– Prepares nurses to lead the selection,
implementation and optimization of information
systems to support nursing and interprofessional
care as well as assure patient access to essential
health information.
Program options
• The BSN-to-DNP degree program includes all
the DNP courses plus specialty nursing
informatics courses
• The PhD program includes same nursing
informatics courses in addition to the PhD
coursework
• LHIT-HP Certificate (16 credits, online)
Program options
• PhD program
– Two to three years to complete course work
– 60 credits
– Dissertation – time varies
• DNP program
– Three years (full-time) or four years (part-time) to
complete
– 71 credits
– 1,000 clinical hours
– Scholarly Project
Nursing Informatics coursework
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Interdisciplinary Healthcare Informatics
Consumer Health Informatics
Applied Health Care Databases
System Analysis and Design
Knowledge Representation & Interoperability
Population Health Informatics
Clinical Decision Support
Careers in informatics
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Business application analysts
Chief information officers
Chief nursing information officers
Clinical informatics coordinators
Directors of nursing informatics
Directors of quality informatics
Faculty specializing in informatics
Health care informatics software
developers
• Implementation consultants
• Informatics nurse educators
• Information system clinical project
leaders
• Information systems administrators
• Information technology training
directors
• Nursing/health informatics
consultants
Average salary of informatics nurse professionals
(HIMMS, 2014)
2014
2007
2004
$100,717
$83,675
$69,500
Workplace settings (HIMSS, 2014)
Hospital
Health System
Academic Setting
Government/Military
Vendor
Consulting Firm
Ambulatory Care
Other
4%
3% 3%
4%
4%
7%
14%
61%
Deadlines
• DNP: Nov. 1, 2014, is the priority deadline for fall 2015
admission
– Applications will be accepted on a space available basis for the nursing
informatics specialty through Feb. 15, 2015
– Applications received by Nov. 1 will have priority for the 50 $20,000
Bentson Scholarships available
• PhD: Dec. 1, 2014, is the priority deadline for fall 2015
admission
• Certificate program: July 1, 2014, is the deadline for fall
admission. Nov. 1, 2014, is the deadline for spring
admission.
• Further information: http://z.umn.edu/informatics
Specialty Coordinator
Karen Monsen
612-624-0490 or mons0122@umn.edu