Nurses are vital to the implementation and adoption of healthcare technology. In this conversation, Intel’s Joan Hankin, MSN, RN, sits down with Elizabeth “Betty” T. Jordan, DNSc, RNC, FAAN and Associate Professor University of South Florida College of Nursing, to discuss a nurse’s perspective on health IT, how IT impacts patient care, and how generational attitudes shape health IT adoption.
About Elizabeth “Betty” T. Jordan
Elizabeth “Betty” T. Jordan, DNSc, RNC is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore. Jordan received her Doctoral of Science degree from Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, her Master of Science in nursing from the University of Delaware and her Bachelor of Science in nursing from the University of Maryland, College Park, Md. Jordan completed her business of nursing post-graduate certificate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
With more than 25 years of clinical experience and significant research expertise in labor and delivery, Jordan is a recognized national leader in maternal and newborn outcomes research, education and practice. Her areas of expertise include high-risk maternal-newborn care; prenatal care; predictors of neonatal outcomes; outcomes measurements in perinatal care; secondary data analysis; legal consulting for perinatal nursing care; and educating nursing students as “doulas,” birth companions.
She has been published in Nursing and Health Care Perspectives, and the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing. Jordan is an elected member of the board of directors for the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses and also serves on the board of directors for the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. She maintains a clinical nursing practice with the Baltimore City Health Department, reviewing infant and fetal deaths and aspects of prenatal care of women in
