Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina offers a distance-based informatics specialty program with a Master of Science for nurses and a Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics for anyone with a healthcare background. The program combines virtual and on-campus instruction. The curriculum includes courses on health information exchange standards and methods, health information systems, research methods and applied statistics. Duke University has taught nurses since 1931 and established its nursing Bachelor of Science degree program in 1953. Nursing students have a variety of advanced nursing training to choose from, including a Master of Science degree, a post-master's certificate, a doctorate of nursing practice program and a nursing doctoral program.
Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis, Indiana offers a full range of nursing programs, including a graduate certificate in nursing informatics. Nursing students can add informatics to their degree program, whether studying for a Master of Science in Nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice, or Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science graduate degrees. Nursing informatics courses include introduction to nursing informatics, clinical information systems, nursing information practicum, consumer health informatics, data analysis and computer technologies. Indiana University School of Nursing has been in operation since 1914 and is one of the top schools offering graduate nursing programs.
The University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City teaches nursing informatics at its Center for Health Informatics. The school offers a Master of Science in Health Informatics and has a health information technology scholars program to promote informatics to faculty interested in integrating health information and new technologies. The university's school of nursing has been in operation since the early 1900s, with the department of nursing established in 1906 and the nursing baccalaureate program was established in 1929. The Doctor of Nursing program was established in 2008. Health informatics coursework includes health care research, knowledge management in healthcare and health informatics practicum.
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing in Nashville, Tennessee offers clinical systems and educational informatics. The program is presented in a modified learning format that includes distance and distributed learning methods, block campus schedules and online conferencing. The nursing school's informatics programs are aligned with the university medical center's Department of Biomedical Informatics, providing cross-disciplinary clinical experiences for students. Vanderbilt School of Nursing was ranked in the top 20 nursing schools in the country in U.S. News & World Report's 2011 university rankings, and Vanderbilt University is ranked 17th among national universities in the same report.