Nursing Informatics Certificate Program

Grow your career and gain the expertise to integrate data, manage complex health information systems and support decision-making processes that positively affect patients and practitioners. Information technology (IT) continues to play a key role in enhancing patient care, and registered nurses (RNs) with a background in IT and healthcare are in high demand.

Make a positive impact on the nursing landscape as an experienced RN with a Nursing Informatics Certificate from Thomas Edison State University (TESU). Our 9-credit online program includes three theory courses and provides the skills and knowledge you need to practice as a Nursing Informatics Specialist in various academic or healthcare settings.

Upon completion of the Nursing Informatics Certificate program, you will be able to meet the following competencies:

1. Utilize interprofessional knowledge in nursing informatics to care for diverse nurses, individuals, families and communities to enact clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.
2. Demonstrate person-centered nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families and communities to promote positive informatics utilization.
3. Construct collaborative innovative nursing informatics for diverse communities for health promotion and disease management to improve population outcomes.
4. Appraise evidence-based nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families and communities to improve and transform health care.
5. Employ nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families and communities that promote quality and safety.
6. Collaborate with interprofessional team members and stakeholders who provide nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families and communities to optimize outcomes.
7. Lead in providing nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families and communities to provide positive learning outcomes.
8. Use informatics and healthcare technologies following best practices that demonstrate professional, regulatory and ethical standards for diverse nurses, individuals, families and communities to provide positive learning outcomes.
9. Integrate professionalism in nursing informatics for diverse nurses, individuals, families and communities.
10. Choose personal and professional developmental informatics activities that foster well-being and contribute to a culture of lifelong learning and leadership.