Are you a nurse looking to enhance your expertise in nursing informatics? Or perhaps you are seeking to earn continuing education hours for professional growth, re-certification, or promotion? Consider attending the Nursing Informatics Boot Camp!

Boot Camp Details

Led by Susan K. Newbold, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, FHIMSS, FAMIA, this intensive two-day course focuses on current informatics trends and issues in health. It includes content for nurses interested in becoming Certified Informatics Nurses. Other clinical professionals working in informatics may wish to take the course to become exposed to the course topics.

Throughout the course, participants will learn about: 

• Foundations of practice
• System design lifecycle
• Data management and healthcare technology
• Current issues
• Case studies

Course objectives include: 

• Discuss the scope and standards of nursing informatics practice
• Describe professional practice, trends and issues within the informatics nurse role
• Explore management and leadership issues affecting informatics in healthcare settings
• Identify key concepts in informatics, information technology, information management, knowledge generation and data security
• Consider human factors in relation to information technology systems
• Describe models and theories associated with informatics
• Delineate steps of the system life cycle as it applies to information technology in the health setting

Continuing Education Credits

This program is approved for up to 14.5 continuing education (CE) hours for use in fulfilling the requirements of the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS) and the Certified Associate in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CAHIMS). 

Upcoming Courses

The Central and North Florida HIMSS Chapter will host this course in Tampa, Florida, sometime in April 2025. Please contact Richard Crews at r.crews@tgh.org if you’re interested. 

On April 14-15, 2025, the South Carolina HIMSS Chapter will host this course in Columbia, South Carolina. Course participants can then attend the SCHIMSS Annual Conference on April 16 for no additional charge. Register here or contact Katya Dowling at KDowling@ubeo.com for any questions. 

Host a Nursing Informatics Boot Camp in 2025

If you would like to host a boot camp, please contact Dr. Susan K Newbold at NIBootCamp@comcast.net.