Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS is the founder of Nurse Evolution, a cause-based nursing community established to educate all nurses how to expertly use technology, data and innovation strategies for optimizing nursing care delivery for the health of people and populations. Whende graduated from Walden University, Minneapolis, in 2012 with a Master of Science in nursing with a nursing informatics focus and holds board certification in informatics nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). She is an award winning author and editor of the textbook ‘Emerging Technologies for Nurses–Implications for Practice’(Springer Publishing:NYC) and is currently a Senior Editor at the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), for which she regularly writes about big data-enable emerging technologies.

• Section 1. Truths Chapter 1. The State of Nursing Informatics - Opportunities to Boldly Influence Change Chapter 2. The Facts About Informatics Nurses Place in Healthcare IT Chapter 3. The Specialty of Nursing Informatics Section 2. Talent Chapter 4. What Nurses Informaticists Have and Need More Of Chapter 5. Substantiating the Value of Nursing Informatics Chapter 6. Advancing your Growth in Healthcare Information Technology Section 3. Transforming the Future Chapter 7. Applying Innovation and New Technologies Chapter 8. The Future: Where Nursing Informatics Goes from Here Chapter 9. Epilogue: The Best Advice You’ll Ever Get

Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS is the founder of Nurse Evolution, a cause-based nursing community established to educate all nurses how to expertly use technology, data and innovation strategies for optimizing nursing care delivery for the health of people and populations. Whende graduated from Walden University, Minneapolis, in 2012 with a Master of Science in nursing with a nursing informatics focus and holds board certification in informatics nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). She is an award winning author and editor of the textbook ‘Emerging Technologies for Nurses–Implications for Practice’(Springer Publishing:NYC) and is currently a Senior Editor at the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), for which she regularly writes about big data-enable emerging technologies.

• Section 1. Truths Chapter 1. The State of Nursing Informatics - Opportunities to Boldly Influence Change Chapter 2. The Facts About Informatics Nurses Place in Healthcare IT Chapter 3. The Specialty of Nursing Informatics Section 2. Talent Chapter 4. What Nurses Informaticists Have and Need More Of Chapter 5. Substantiating the Value of Nursing Informatics Chapter 6. Advancing your Growth in Healthcare Information Technology Section 3. Transforming the Future Chapter 7. Applying Innovation and New Technologies Chapter 8. The Future: Where Nursing Informatics Goes from Here Chapter 9. Epilogue: The Best Advice You’ll Ever Get

Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, FHIMSS is the founder of Nurse Evolution, a cause-based nursing community established to educate all nurses how to expertly use technology, data and innovation strategies for optimizing nursing care delivery for the health of people and populations. Whende graduated from Walden University, Minneapolis, in 2012 with a Master of Science in nursing with a nursing informatics focus and holds board certification in informatics nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). She is an award winning author and editor of the textbook ‘Emerging Technologies for Nurses–Implications for Practice’(Springer Publishing:NYC) and is currently a Senior Editor at the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), for which she regularly writes about big data-enable emerging technologies.

• Section 1. Truths Chapter 1. The State of Nursing Informatics - Opportunities to Boldly Influence Change Chapter 2. The Facts About Informatics Nurses Place in Healthcare IT Chapter 3. The Specialty of Nursing Informatics Section 2. Talent Chapter 4. What Nurses Informaticists Have and Need More Of Chapter 5. Substantiating the Value of Nursing Informatics Chapter 6. Advancing your Growth in Healthcare Information Technology Section 3. Transforming the Future Chapter 7. Applying Innovation and New Technologies Chapter 8. The Future: Where Nursing Informatics Goes from Here Chapter 9. Epilogue: The Best Advice You’ll Ever Get