Schools

A similiar list can be found be doing an Internet search using the term Nursing Informatics education, Nursing, Healthcare Informatics graduate degree, etc.

Check out the University Of Maryland's highly respected and well known NI Graduate Program. Educaitonal information on NI undergrad and graduate degree programs can also be found on the websites of the American Medical Informatics Association/NI Work Group Home Page, The American Nursing Informatics Association, the Capital Area Round Table in Nursing Informatics, the Boston Area Nursing Informatics Consortium, the Alliance for Nursing Informatics, etc.

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Educational Opportunities

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

new Case Western Reserve University/Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. http://fpb.case.edu/MSN/Informatics.shtm

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 http://www.uic.edu/sph/phi

NEW 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: http://www.onlinestudies.umd.edu/phi

University of Maryland School of Nursing

Baltimore, Maryland

Contact: [email protected] or 1-410-706-3767 or http://nursing.umaryland.edu/programs/ms/informatics.htm

Vanderbilt University: http://www.nursing.vanderbilt.edu/msn/ni.html

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 http://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.

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.

Could someone please please please help me out, if you have a list of great Grad schools for nurse informatics, online. and for on campus for the MD, VA, DC area. i would really appreciate it. or tell me what school u went too. i need a really good school to attend for this Degree. i currently live in alaska but im going back home which is the MD, DC, VA area while my husband is in iraq and i need some good schools to go to. ONline or on campus. Help me if you can thank you very much.