Jerri Westphal, DNP, MSN, RN, NI-BC, CDH-L
Nurse. Informatician. Educator.
I help nurses and health systems make sense of the technology reshaping care.
What Is Nursing Informatics
The discipline that makes technology work for nurses — not against them
Nursing informatics sits at the intersection of clinical practice, information science, and technology. It's the discipline responsible for making sure the systems nurses use to document, communicate, and make decisions actually support the way care gets delivered, not the other way around.
If you've been frustrated by an EHR workflow, wondered how AI tools get validated before reaching a patient, or wondered what a clinical informatics team actually does. That's what this site exists to explain.
My Story
I started as a bedside nurse. That's still the lens everything runs through.
I spent 13 years at a large academic medical center, working across nursing education, leadership, and informatics. Today I hold a regional informatics leadership role supporting multiple medical centers, multiple clinical disciplines, and more than 16,000 nurses.
Along the way I completed a Doctor of Nursing Practice. My dissertation was the first formal AI literacy needs assessment conducted within the nursing informatics community, surveying nearly 200 professionals to understand where the field actually stands.
I also teach health informatics at the graduate level as an adjunct professor, and I've contributed to peer-reviewed research on predictive analytics tools used to identify patient deterioration in acute care.
Informatics Integrated exists because of a pattern I kept running into: nurses who wanted into this field with no clear map for how to get there, and health systems that needed informatics expertise without committing to a full-time hire or a massive consulting engagement. I built this to be that map, and that outside perspective.
Every nurse who reaches out is somewhere different in this journey.
Tell me where you are, and let's figure out the next step together.
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