Help Healthcare Move Forward with an MSN in Nursing Informatics
Prepare to lead in healthcare technology with skills to support data-informed care, interoperability and better patient, population and organizational outcomes.
Earn Your Master of Science in Nursing in Nursing Informatics Online
Whether you're a bedside nurse ready to move into healthcare technology or an RN already working in informatics-adjacent roles, Herzing's Master of Science in Nursing in Nursing Informatics (MSNNI) gives you graduate-level preparation designed to help you pursue a career as a nurse informaticist. You'll complete your coursework online and build applied skills through practicum coursework, working with healthcare data, clinical information systems. Emerging technologies, including applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare under experienced faculty guidance.
Accelerated RN to MSN-NI completion pathway
Finish in 16-28 months, depending on the pathway you choose
Online coursework with applied practicum experience
12 graduate courses, including a two-course practicum sequence
135 hours of applied practicum experience
Emphasis on healthcare data governance, interoperability and AI-informed practice
Designed to prepare nurses to contribute and to lead nursing informatics and healthcare technology initiatives.
Why Choose Herzing's Nursing Informatics Program
Herzing's MSN in Nursing Informatics takes a practical approach to preparing you for a career at the intersection of nursing and healthcare technology. Coursework emphasizes healthcare data management, clinical information systems, interoperability and AI applications in healthcare while also encouraging you to build leadership skills for technology-enabled environments. You'll study nursing informatics principles, healthcare informatics systems, data governance and workflow optimization.
You'll build skills to analyze healthcare data, support system design and guide technology adoption across interdisciplinary healthcare teams. In your practicum coursework, you'll apply nursing informatics principles within complex organizational environments, examining stakeholder requirements and evidence-based informatics strategies that support quality improvement and patient-centered outcomes.
Applied Practicum Experience
Every student completes two practicum courses that apply nursing informatics principles in real organizational settings.
Applied Clinical Informatics and Workflow Optimization
This practicum is where you apply nursing informatics principles to clinical workflows and information systems under faculty guidance.
- 75 total contact hours, including 45 hours of applied practicum experience
- Prerequisites: Knowledge for Nursing Practice, Scholarship for Nursing Practice
- Focus on clinical workflows, information systems and stakeholder requirements
Professional Practice in Nursing Informatics
This practicum builds on the first, moving you toward strategic and organizational-level informatics practice.
- 105 total contact hours, including 90 hours of applied practicum experience
- Prerequisite: Applied Clinical Informatics and Workflow Optimization
- Focus on strategic planning, interdisciplinary leadership and organizational transformation
What Will I Learn in the Online MSN-NI Program?
The program is 36 semester credit hours across 12 required courses. You'll build from foundational nursing knowledge and health policy through advanced practice and nursing informatics principles, then apply everything in your practicum sequence.
Required courses include:
- Health Policy and Management
- Knowledge for Nursing Practice
- Technology and Nursing Informatics in Advanced Practice
- Systems-Based Practice
- Scholarship for Nursing Practice
- Advanced Health Assessment
- Advanced Pathophysiology
- Advanced Pharmacology
- Nursing Informatics Principles and Practice
- Healthcare Informatics Systems, Interoperability, and Data Governance
Practicum Sequence
- NU 688 Applied Clinical Informatics and Workflow Optimization
- NU 689 Professional Practice in Nursing Informatics
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Get StartedWhere Nurse Informaticists Work
Nurse informaticists work across a wide range of healthcare settings. The program is designed to help prepare you to work in environments such as:
- Hospitals and health systems
- Healthcare technology and electronic health record (EHR) companies
- Insurance and managed care organizations
- Government and public health agencies
- Healthcare consulting organizations
Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best online graduate nursing programs in 2026
Committed to Quality
Herzing University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (hlcommission.org). Herzing University is approved to offer programs in an online learning modality through association with the main campus in Madison, Wisconsin.
Individuals considering a Master of Science in Nursing program should check with their applicable state board of nursing before enrolling in any graduate nursing program for any specific state requirements.