Nursing Informatics for the Advanced Practice Nurse

Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, is Clinical Nursing Informaticist, Texas Tech University, USA Health Sciences Center, where she teaches DNP courses on statistics, informatics, epidemiology, and population health at the organizational and public policy level. Dr. McBride's clinical expertise also includes perioperative and cardiovascular nursing, with a research focus on methods development for implementing, evaluating, and utilizing large healthcare datasets and health information technology to improve patient safety and quality within the healthcare delivery system. She has developed and deployed software and services with executive oversight in the for-profit and not-for-profit arenas. Most recently she supported operational activity and administrative oversight of the West Texas Health Information Technology (HIT) Regional Extension Center under the F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community in a Senior Leadership role. Her focused activities include advising practices and hospitals on workflow redesign, clinical decision support, strategies to assist providers in meeting meaningful use of EHRs, quality measures, and analytics using certified EHR technology. Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS, is Associate Professor, Texas Woman's University College of Nursing, USA, where she teaches nursing research and informatics. She also supports the statistics component of Capstone projects. Previously, she worked as Senior Manager, Center for Research and Innovation, VHA Inc., in Irving, Texas and served as Director of Nursing Research and Informatics in the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council-Education and Research Foundation. In that role, Dr. Tietze was responsible for deployment of the Council's three-year technology implementation project on behalf of the Small Community, Rural Hospitals Research Grant, a NIH grant funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She was key member on a team that was awarded an $8.4 million grant for a Regional Extension Center in North Texas, USA. Dr. Tietze directed Workforce Center nursing research and Data Initiative informatics projects, and is Board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in Informatics Nursing. She is FHIMSS Certified by the Health Information Management Systems Society.