,NURSING INFORMATICS
for the
Advanced
Practice Nurse
,Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN, is a clinical nursing informaticist at the
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. As a professor at Texas Tech, she teaches DNP
courses, including statistics, informatics, epidemiology, and population health at the orga-
nizational and public policy level. She is also the director of the master’s and postmaster’s
nursing informatics programs. Dr. McBride’s clinical expertise also includes perioperative
and cardiovascular nursing, with a research focus on methods development for implement-
ing, evaluating, and utilizing large health care datasets and health information technology
(HIT) to improve patient safety and quality within the health care delivery system. She has
developed and deployed software and services with executive oversight in the for-profit and
not-for-profit arenas. Most recently, she supported operational activity and administra-
tive oversight of the West Texas Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center
(WTxHITREC) under the F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health in a senior
leadership role. Her focused activities include advising practices and hospitals on workflow
redesign, clinical decision support, strategies to assist providers in meeting meaningful use of
electronic health records (EHRs), quality measures, and analytics using certified EHR tech-
nology. Her current research involves an EHR-enhanced simulation program to develop best-
practice competencies in the use of EHRs for interprofessional teams and evaluation of the
use of social media initiatives in improving population health.
Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS, is an associate professor at Texas Woman’s Univer-
sity College of Nursing, where she teaches nursing research and informatics. She also sup-
ports the statistics component of capstone projects. Previously, she worked as senior manager,
Center for Research and Innovation, VHA Inc., in Irving, Texas. She also served as director
of nursing research and informatics in the Dallas–Fort Worth Hospital Council’s Education
and Research Foundation. In that role, Dr. Tietze was responsible for deployment of the Coun-
cil’s 3-year technology implementation project on behalf of the Small Community, Rural
Hospitals Research Grant, a National Institutes of Health grant funded by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality. She was a key member on a team that was awarded an
$8.4 million grant for a Regional Extension Center in North Texas. Dr. Tietze directed work-
force center nursing research and data initiative informatics projects, and is board certified
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in informatics nursing. She is fellow of the
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (FHIMSS) certified by the Health
Information Management Systems Society. Since 2010, Dr. Tietze has been an associate
professor at the Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing at Texas Woman’s
University. In 2014, she became the program director of the graduate certificate program in
interprofessional informatics at Texas Woman’s University.
, NURSING INFORMATICS
for the
Advanced
Practice Nurse
Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes,
and Interprofessionalism
Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN
Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS
for the
Advanced
Practice Nurse
,Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN, is a clinical nursing informaticist at the
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. As a professor at Texas Tech, she teaches DNP
courses, including statistics, informatics, epidemiology, and population health at the orga-
nizational and public policy level. She is also the director of the master’s and postmaster’s
nursing informatics programs. Dr. McBride’s clinical expertise also includes perioperative
and cardiovascular nursing, with a research focus on methods development for implement-
ing, evaluating, and utilizing large health care datasets and health information technology
(HIT) to improve patient safety and quality within the health care delivery system. She has
developed and deployed software and services with executive oversight in the for-profit and
not-for-profit arenas. Most recently, she supported operational activity and administra-
tive oversight of the West Texas Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center
(WTxHITREC) under the F. Marie Hall Institute for Rural and Community Health in a senior
leadership role. Her focused activities include advising practices and hospitals on workflow
redesign, clinical decision support, strategies to assist providers in meeting meaningful use of
electronic health records (EHRs), quality measures, and analytics using certified EHR tech-
nology. Her current research involves an EHR-enhanced simulation program to develop best-
practice competencies in the use of EHRs for interprofessional teams and evaluation of the
use of social media initiatives in improving population health.
Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS, is an associate professor at Texas Woman’s Univer-
sity College of Nursing, where she teaches nursing research and informatics. She also sup-
ports the statistics component of capstone projects. Previously, she worked as senior manager,
Center for Research and Innovation, VHA Inc., in Irving, Texas. She also served as director
of nursing research and informatics in the Dallas–Fort Worth Hospital Council’s Education
and Research Foundation. In that role, Dr. Tietze was responsible for deployment of the Coun-
cil’s 3-year technology implementation project on behalf of the Small Community, Rural
Hospitals Research Grant, a National Institutes of Health grant funded by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality. She was a key member on a team that was awarded an
$8.4 million grant for a Regional Extension Center in North Texas. Dr. Tietze directed work-
force center nursing research and data initiative informatics projects, and is board certified
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center in informatics nursing. She is fellow of the
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (FHIMSS) certified by the Health
Information Management Systems Society. Since 2010, Dr. Tietze has been an associate
professor at the Houston J. and Florence A. Doswell College of Nursing at Texas Woman’s
University. In 2014, she became the program director of the graduate certificate program in
interprofessional informatics at Texas Woman’s University.
, NURSING INFORMATICS
for the
Advanced
Practice Nurse
Patient Safety, Quality, Outcomes,
and Interprofessionalism
Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, FAAN
Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS
