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Certification in Nursing Informatics
· American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
administers 40 specialty and advanced practice certification examinations each year. ANCC Certification exams are administered by authorized testing agencies at locations across the country.
→ New ANCC NI Certification catalog
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Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics (WINI)
is a weekend event developed by three nurses board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in Nursing Informatics.
This is a link to the company that sponsors the weekend...
Health
IT Certification
Health IT Certification provides professional training and certification
for those responsible for planning, selecting,
implementing, and managing electronic health records (EHR) and
other health information technology (HIT)
Educational Opportunities
Masters in
Nursing: Guide to accredited programs offering a
Masters Degree in Nursing
http://www.mastersinnursing.com/
University of Victoria, Distance Master’s in Health
Informatics:
The School of Health Information Science at the University
of Victoria (BC, Canada) offers an online Master’s degree in
Health Informatics, with courses in areas such as Patient
Care Information Systems, Information Management and
Technology, Clinical Decision Support Systems, and
Epidemiology in Health Services Management. Our courses use
a combination of synchronous and asynchronous teaching
methods, and all are taught at a distance, with the
exception of a two-week workshop on campus at the University
of Victoria in May of each year. The School accepts
applications for September, January and May start dates. For
more information, go to
http://hinf.uvic.ca/
Oregon
Health & Science University Biomedical Informatics Distance
Learning Course - The Department of Medical
Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) at Oregon Health
& Science University will be offering another Biomedical
Informatics Distance Learning Course as part of the AMIA
10x10 Program
more
Oregon Institute of
Technology's Bachelor Degree program in Health
Informatics - The OIT program is an accredited
program in the School of Engineering, Technology and
Management. The program offers in class and distance
education that is ideal for nurses who desire to
gain knowledge in health informatics and information
technologies at the baccalaureate level.
Further information is located at
http://www.oit.edu/portland/it/hi
Students in Case Western Reserve University
(Cleveland, OH) MSN in Nursing Informatics
program will specialize in an area of interest within
Nursing Informatics. These areas include but are not
limited to: systems analysis and design, emerging
technologies, database management, and organizational
implementation of information systems. An internship of
one semester will provide an opportunity for the student
to obtain practical experience as a Nursing Informatics
Specialist (NIS) in a variety of clinical, educational,
research, and administrative settings. The program
includes 500 hours that may be credited toward the
required 2,000 hours for certification as a Nursing
Informatics Specialist through the ANCC.
University of Illinois @ Chicago - College of
Applied Health Sciences within the Department of
Biomedical & Health Information Sciences has a joint Nursing/HI
degree as well as both a Master Science and a certificate
program in HI. For more information:
http://www.ahs.uic.edu/bhis/programs/hi/certificate.php
Excelsior College-Master of Science in Nursing - Major in Clinical Systems Management: Master's program is 44 credits with a large informatics component and is administered almost exclusively online.
Duke
University School of Nursing:
Duke University offers a distance-based program for
nurses who are already working in nursing informatics and
wish to learn more about issues, standards, best practices,
applied theories, project management, domain modeling,
requirements analysis, information infrastructure, and a
whole lot more. The program offers both MSN and
Post-Master's Certificates and accepts a small group of
students that begin a new cohort each January, so apply
early!
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Department of Nursing -Master of Science in Healthcare - Online Degree: The University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences Center School of Nursing offers a 34 credit Master of Science program nursing for nurses to practice as informatics specialists. We also offer a 16 credit Post-Master's certificate and a 16 credit Certificate in Health Care Informatics. These programs are available totally online. For extensive information, please see our web page: http://www.uchsc.edu/nursing/informatics.
Master's or Certificate in Public Health Informatics On-Line
The University of Illinois at Chicago is offering the only completely online accredited program in the country relating to this field. Details are available at www.uic.edu/sph/phi
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
now offers an Online Master
of Jurisprudence (MJ) in Health Law - within the program
there is the opportunity to focus on (1) Quality, Patient
Safety, Risk Management and Compliance, (2) Health
Informatics, and (3) Health Law Strategy and Policy.
University of
Maryland, College Park
Graduate Certificate in
Public Health Informatics
The University of Maryland
Department of Public & Community Health, a leader in the
public health sciences, is offering a new online
graduate program in Public Health Informatics.
Link:
www.onlinestudies.umd.edu/phi
Su Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics:
University of Maryland School of Nursing Baltimore, Maryland
Contact: ce@son.umaryland.edu or 1-410-706-3767 or
http://nursing.umaryland.edu/programs/ms/informatics.htm
University of Missouri:
http://web.missouri.edu/~nursing/academics/leader.php
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) announces a new doctoral program in medical informatics. The program will be the first Ph.D. program of its kind in Wisconsin, and one of only two currently available in the Midwest.
Contact: medinf.uwm.edu
The University of Pittsburgh
http://informatics.nursing.pitt.edu
Robert Woods Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program For more information about the program, please visit www.enfp-info.org.
Jefferson School of Nursing has a Graduate Nursing
Informatics program that is offered online. The curriculum
is predicated on the belief that professional nursing is an
art and a a science incorporating theory, research and
clinical practice. All students enrolled in the M.S.N.
program share a core curriculum. The Nursing Informatics
specialty requires 36 credits. Full-time students can
complete the course of study in 15 months beginning with a
summer semester. Part-time options are also available. Walden
University is offering nursing informatics programs
entirely online, and is intended to fit into the schedules
of working professionals who are continuing their higher
education. The curriculum of the Nursing Informatics program
combines nursing science, computer science and information
science as proposed by experts in the field. The
specialization offers nurses information technology skills
to enhance the safety and quality of patient care.
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