Using information structures, processes, computers, and technology, nursing informaticists supports nurses, consumers, patients, the healthcare team, and administrators with the goals of achieving increased efficiency, lower costs, and improved quality of patient care. Emphasis is placed on enhancing the speed and accuracy of the charting process through the implementation of electronic medical record (EMR) (or electronic health records [EHRs]). However, nursing informaticists may also work with bedside computing, robotics, and wearable technologies.

Nursing informatics is a broad specialty where nurses may work in hospitals, consulting firms, universities and corporations in roles including, but not limited to, clinical analyst, informatics nurse specialist, director of clinical informatics, and clinical informatics coordinator. 

A career in nursing informatics requires:

• project management skills.
• critical thinking.
• creativity.

• Guideline Summaries, including electronic health information
• Blog posts, with infographics, mnemonics, tips, and more
• Journal articles and continuing professional development (CPD) activities
• Headlines and news stories
• Society partners