Nursing Informatics Bootcamp with Dr. Newbold

This is a two day on site event.

A dinner will be provided at a local restaurant for all participants in the program on Friday, May 22nd. More details to come!

Discounted double queen bed rooms have been reserved at Courtyard by Marriott Jacksonville I-295/East Beltway 9815 Lantern Street Jacksonville, Florida, USA, 32225 . Cost to be covered by individual paticiaptant.

Day 1: May 22, 2026

7:30am Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM EST to 4:30 PM EST (Lunch included)

Day 2: May 23, 2026

7:30am Sign in/Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM EST to 4:30 PM EST (Lunch included)

Presented by: Susan K. Newbold, PhD RN-BC FAAN FHIMSS, FAMIA

Course Description:

This intensive two-day course focuses on current informatics trends and issues. It includes content for Registered Nurses who are interested in becoming American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) board certified Informatics Nurses. Other clinical professionals working in informatics may wish to take the course to become exposed to the course topics.

*Participants will earn 14 contact hours of continuing education credits for attending this event. Please note that you must attend at least 50% of the course times and submit the evaluation to receive 7 contact hours. The Planning committee and speaker for this activity have no financial disclosures to provide.

Axxess Consult Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.

This program is approved for up to 14.5 continuing education (CE) hours for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS) and the Certified Associate in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CAHIMS).

Course Objectives:

1. Discuss the scope and standards of nursing informatics practice

2. Describe professional practice, trends and issues within the informatics nurse role

3. Explore management and leadership issues affecting informatics in healthcare settings

4. Identify key concepts in informatics, information technology, information management, knowledge generation and data security.

5. Consider human factors in relation to information technology systems

6. Describe models and theories associated with informatics.

7. Delineate steps of the system life cycle as it applies to information technology in the health setting

Day 1 Agenda (May 22, 2026; 7:30 AM EST - 4:30 PM EST)

7:30AM- 8AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome, Introductions, Set Objectives

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Foundation of Practice: Professional Practice, Interprofessional Collaboration

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Break

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Professional Practice (Continued)

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM System Design Life Cycle: Planning & Analysis, Designing & Building, Implementing & Testing, Evaluating, Maintaining, & Supporting

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Break (provided)

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM System Design Life Cycle (continued)

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Break

2:45 PM - 3:30 PM System Design Life Cycle (Continued)

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Introduction to Case Studies & Group Work

5 :30 PM - 7:30 PM Dinner - Provided by HIMSS Central & North Florida Chapter - Location TBD

Day 2 Agenda (May 23, 2026; 8:00 AM EST - 4:30 PM EST)

7:30AM- 8AM Sign In and Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Foundations of Practice (continued): Methodologies and Theories, Rules, Regulations, and Requirements

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM Break

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM Foundations of Practice (Continued)

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Data Management and Health Care Technology: Data Standards, Data Management, Data Transformation, Hardware, Software, and Peripherals.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Break (provided)

1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Data Management & Health Care Technology (Continued)

1:30 PM - 2:45 PM Presentation of Case Studies by Participants and Discussion

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Break

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM Presentation of Case Studies by Participants and Discussion

3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Certification Exam Preparation, Final Questions, Course Evaluation, Raffle, Adjourn

Susan K. Newbold, PhD, RN, NI-BC, FAAN, FHIMSS, FAMIA, [email protected], is the Course Director and Consultant in Healthcare Informatics, Franklin, TN. She is uniquely qualified to teach this course as she has experience in the vendor, consulting, academic and hospital worlds. Dr. Newbold is ANCC Board Certified in Nursing Informatics and initiated the first review course in nursing informatics in 1995. She organized the first hospital-based conference in Nursing Informatics in the US. In 2001 she won the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing International Technology Award for Knowledge Advancement for this course. Dr. Newbold is the Recipient of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2019 Virginia K. Saba Nursing Informatics Leadership Award. In 2023 she was selected as the recipient of the AMIA Virginia K. Saba Informatics Award.

Dr. Newbold earned her PhD and MS in Nursing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is a Founder of CARING (now ANIA). Susan is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, HIMSS, and AMIA. Identified as a pioneer in nursing informatics, Susan co-edited five books and has written numerous articles on informatics topics. Susan was a keynote speaker in the first nursing informatics conferences held in Taiwan and Singapore and has consulted in informatics in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Qatar, Singapore, Slovenia, and Taiwan. Susan was selected in the 2013 Class for “Women to Watch” by the Nashville Medical News and is the HIMSS 2015 Chapter Leader of the Year awarded in 2016.

Constance S. Berner, DNP, RN, NI-BC, is a registered nurse, practicing in many nursing specialties since 1999, including SICU, ER, Med Surg, and Flight Nursing. She began working in nursing informatics full-time in 2010. Constance earned her DNP in Nursing Informatics and an MSN degree from Walden University. Dr. Berner is a member of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. She is a board-certified ANCC Informatics Nurse Specialist and serves as an adjunct instructor with Dr. Susan Newbold's Nursing Informatics Boot Camp. Constance served as past Vice-President of the TN Chapter of the American Nursing Informatics Association. She is an active member of the American Nursing Association, AMIA, ANIA, Nursing Knowledge Big Data (NKBD), and TN HIMSS. Constance works with the VHA Office of Nursing Informatics (ONI) VA Central Office. Constance co-presented "System Modernization: The User's Voice" and "VA Approved Standardize the Enterprise" during HIMSS21 Global Conference. She received the National HeRO Award in recognition of the nursing documentation standardization efforts in the VHA.

Constance is married with five children, eight grandchildren, and three Main Coon Cats. She enjoys volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, traveling, fishing, and spending time with family and friends.

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