Career Opportunities

What types of careers do nurse informaticians have?

Clinical informaticians apply information technology to deliver healthcare and improve patient care. This often involves applying project management skills.

  • Plan, design, implement, and/or evaluate projects that use technology (e.g. electronic health records, computerized provider order entry, mobile phone applications) to improve clinician workflow and quality of patient care
  • Train new staff on how to use the institution's technologies in their work
  • Assist others in troubleshooting health technologies
  • Liaise between healthcare staff and information technology workers when creating or improving upon health technologies

Data standards provide healthcare providers with a set of terms to which collected health data can be assigned, allowing for the data to be shared throughout an integrated health information infrastructure

  • Collect and code health data according to a standard to support the flow of data throughout the continuum of care
  • Crossmap codes from one standard to others to ensure semantic interoperability between information systems
  • Analyze the coded data to extract information, such as prevalence of a specific disease or how often an intervention is done
  • Contribute to the development of clinical decision support systems by applying natural language processing or machine learning principles
  • Examples of data standards: Canadian Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (C-HOBIC), International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), interRAI Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), SNOMED CT

  • Advance the field of nursing informatics and promote patient safety through research involving big data science, data standards, mobile/virtual health, usability heuristics, interoperability, etc.
  • Generate evidence-based products, such as clinical decision support systems and mobile health applications
  • Educate future nurses on the use and relevance of informatics in their careers and provide them with up-to-date information on informatics topics