This session addresses an important gap in informatics implementations—frontline leadership enablement and involvement—and offers a structured, scalable model with practical relevance for nurse leaders navigating artificial intelligence adoption.

National policies shape the expectations for safe, effective, and accountable use of health information technologies, yet the gap between policy intent and operational practice remains a persistent challenge. This session examines how nursing informatics leaders can evaluate national policy direction and translate regulatory and professional expectations into operational rules, governance processes, workflow design, and measurable safety practices.

This session describes how clinical informaticists can use agentic artificial intelligence and vibe coding to build custom operational tools that close the gap between workflow expertise and execution.

Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation® highlights how nurse well-being impacts workforce sustainability, patient safety, and quality care. Participants will explore practical strategies to improve personal and team well-being, create healthier work environments, and build resilience. The session also examines technostress and how nurses can responsibly use artificial intelligence to support practice, efficiency, and well-being.

Effective clinical informatics practice requires more than technical system knowledge—it depends on understanding clinical workflows, applying structured analytical thinking, collecting and visualizing meaningful data, and managing change in complex care environments. This session presents a comprehensive foundational course designed to build core competencies in clinical informatics for nurses and interdisciplinary clinicians.

As oncology care grows increasingly complex and technology-dependent, a critical gap has emerged between clinical expertise and informatics capability at the point of care. This presentation describes the development and operationalization of a novel oncology clinical informatics nurse specialist role within a large academic health system. Discussion will include scope, competencies, and organizational value of this hybrid role and a replicable framework for nurses seeking to establish or advocate for a similar position within their own institutions.

Nursing documentation is a substantial contributor to workload and electronic health record related stress in inpatient settings. Ambient artificial intelligence that generates structured documentation from nurse-patient conversations has the potential to reduce documentation burden, but evidence for its effectiveness in nursing workflows remains limited. The session will describe a project evaluating the use of an ambient listening documentation tool to reduce nursing documentation time while maintaining usability, professional well-being, and documentation quality when implemented as part of routine clinical care.

This session discusses the importance of nurse-centered usability when designing clinical decision support tools for sepsis quality improvement. The session will also highlight the need to collaborate with frontline staff during both the initial design as well as throughout the iterative process.

As healthcare organizations navigate the next era of digital transformation, success depends on leadership-driven partnerships between hospitals and technology vendors that are grounded in evidence-based practice. This session explores how hospital–vendor relationships can evolve from transactional engagements into clinical partnerships focused on shared accountability, measurable outcomes, and continuous learning. Attendees will examine best practices for technology evaluation, emphasizing evidence-informed selection criteria such as usability, clinical effectiveness, nurse satisfaction, and alignment with professional practice standards. The discussion will highlight how embedding evidence-based practice into evaluation and governance structures leads to improved adoption and sustained value.

This presentation explores how a centralized command center model, combined with standardized workflows and real-time operational tools, can transform patient throughput and capacity management across a health system.

Nursing informatics professionals frequently encounter the perception that they are “not real nurses,” reflecting a persistent gap in understanding how nursing practice has evolved within a technology-enabled healthcare environment. In this presentation, Dr. Clement challenges traditional perceptions of nursing by highlighting the vital role nurse informaticists play in improving patient care, advancing technology adoption, and shaping the future of health care.

This session will highlight practical strategies for nursing informatics leaders to drive workflow transformation, optimize clinical decision support integration, and ensure regulatory readiness in physician handoff processes while including nurses in facilitating a comprehensive handoff process for physician and key trauma nurse workflows. Attendees will gain actionable insights into scalable design, governance structures, and measurable outcomes that support safer, more efficient transitions of care.

Nursing informatics has undergone a profound transformation, evolving from early documentation and system implementation efforts to a strategic discipline central to digital health innovation. This session brings together distinguished nurse leaders and clinical informaticists to examine how legacy experiences in service and leadership inform the future trajectory of the profession.