Profile of a Nursing Informatics Nurse

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There is a very good interview at hospitalsoup.com with an informatics nurse:

Name: Lt. Col. Florence Valley
Title: Chief, Health Care Integrator
Place of Employment: Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska
Educational Background: M.S. in Nursing

Background: Lt. Col. Florence Valley joined the U.S. Air Force in 1982, the year she received a B.A. in nursing from the College of Saint Catherine in St. Paul, MN. She began her career as an obstetrics staff nurse, moved into the role of assistant nurse manager, then worked at another facility where they needed a medical-surgical nurse manager. While in Bitburg, Germany, she managed outpatient clinics starting in pediatrics and ending in family practice. After she worked as an inpatient obstetrics head nurse at another facility, she began course work at the University of Arizona and graduated with a M.S. degree. Her nursing studies focused on case, systems and data management. Today she works at a military medical treatment facility that serves a population of 28,000 beneficiaries at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. Valley has worked as an informatics nurse since 1999.


You can read the full article at: http://www.hospitalsoup.com/Day/nurse/ltcolvalley.asp