Nursing Informatics Consultant – Career and Education Profile

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In the field of nursing informatics, you’ll work with medical data, which is important to ensure that doctors and nursing teams provide the best care possible.

Job Responsibilities

As a nurse informatics consultant, you’ll work with computers and networks to help medical care facilities deal with the flow of data. You could complete tasks such as data entry and records recording, system implementation, tool application, and more. In nursing informatics, you could also work in an administrative assistant position, filing and retrieving data as doctors need it. The entire goal of the work you do in health informatics, regardless of your specific tasks, is to get information to the right people as quickly as possible with as few mistakes as possible. In a medical setting, even a small mistake can lead to a very dangerous situation, and doctors that don’t get the information they need quickly enough may not make the best decisions for care when their patients need it most.

Salary and Career Options

According to salary reports, nursing informatics consultants make an average of $59,000 annually, though some report that you can make $90,000 a year or even more in this field. As a consultant in this field, you can work for a single employer to do the tasks listed above, or you can be a freelance consultant of sorts, working under contract and moving from company to company to help optimize informatics systems.

Educational Requirements

Nursing informatics consultants often work in computer sciences or Internet technology outside of the health field first, or work in other areas of nursing and go back to school to take health informatics classes. The American Nurses Credentialing Center offers certification for nurses working in informatics, though this is not necessarily needed to work in the field if you are a licensed RN with a bachelor’s degree in nursing.

LPN to RN College Programs

While several schools have online nursing degrees available, few offer LPN to RN programs. What's the good news? We have listed some accredited schools below that do offer the program in addition to schools with other bridge programs available. Find out more information and contact each school by using any of the links below.

Indiana State University—Indiana State University offers a robust online program designed for LPNs wanting to become registered nurses and earn their BSN degree. Since ISU's credits transfer to over 80 campus majors, this is an ideal program for people wanting to open opportunities for their career down the road.

The College Network—The College Network is a partnership with several universities and organizations like the National League for Nursing that focuses on online education and programs, with several courses for nurses or those interested in a nursing career. Specifically, TCN helps students prepare for their PN and RN licensures and move on to earn graduate degrees.

Other Nursing Degrees

Walden University—Walden University is typically a graduate school with several masters and doctoral programs available, but they do have BSN and RN to MSN bridge programs available. Walden is based out of Minneapolis and offers several options in transferring your previously earned credits to and from (or even within) the school.

Kaplan University—Kaplan University is one of the nation's largest and leading online educators and offers several bridge programs for registered nurses to earn their BSN or MSN degree. If you have previously earned credits, Kaplan makes it easy for you to transfer to any one of their undergraduate or graduate programs.

Herzing University—While Herzing University does not offer an undergraduate nursing degree, it is a great choice for working nurses wanting to pursue leadership positions in Nurse Education or Management. With over 10 campuses and 45 online programs available, Herzing has a massive network that makes it easy to transfer to or from the school.

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