Susan K. Newbold, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, FHIMSS, is a Healthcare Informatics Consultant. She is uniquely qualified to teach this course, given her experience in the consulting, vendor, academic and hospital worlds. Board Certified in Nursing Informatics, Dr. Newbold initiated the first review course in nursing informatics in 1995 which she taught over 130 times. In 2001, she won the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing International Technology Award for Knowledge or Knowledge Advancement for this course.