Center forNursing Informatics

Connie White Delaney, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACMIDean and Professor

Co-Director of the Center for Nursing InformaticsSeptember 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

Vision - Learning Health System• 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)

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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

• 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• 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

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• 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)

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$69,500

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$100,717

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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