An exclusive interview

Optimizing Patient Care Through Technology & Informatics

“When I was in high school, looking to choose a major and a career, I had been very interested in technology. I couldn't decide if I should go into technology, or nursing, which were my two biggest interests at the time. Ultimately, I chose nursing. So my path into informatics was, throughout my time, in direct patient care, first unit and the cardiac unit. My fellow nurse colleagues and I were experiencing a lot of inefficiencies in the way we were working, it was glaringly obvious to me and this directly affected productivity. Ultimately the care we gave to our patients wasn't as quality as it could be. So I desired to try to be a changemaker in nursing.”

Whende Carroll is a clinical informatics advisor based out of the greater Seattle area. She currently works for HIMMS, a nonprofit based company devoted to changing the healthcare ecosystem. She received her bachelor’s in nursing from Seattle Pacific University, and her master’s in Nursing and Informatics from Walden University. In 2016, she founded the Nurse Evolution community, made for nurse informaticists to connect with each other. Whende currently serves as a lecturer in the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership at the University of Washington Tacoma.

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