Nursing informatics plays a crucial role in evaluating cybersecurity risks to bridge the gap between technical and clinical. This role requires deep subject matter expertise in areas such as understanding cyber vulnerabilities, identifying safety risks associated with exploited vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance with regulations, supporting incident response plans and prevention, maintaining data integrity and availability, and compiling ongoing training and awareness for bedside clinicians. Nurses and other bedside clinicians may be the first to identify cybersecurity pain points and issues due to their in-depth knowledge of the facility and workflows. Establishing and maintaining the feedback loop between nursing and cybersecurity is essential for prevention, identification, and response. This session provides an overview of each step in the cybersecurity assessment process including nursing informatics role and what they are accountable for. The goal is to provide any nursing informaticist with meaningful information to establish or enhance their skillsets when participating in a cybersecurity assessment of medical devices.

Continuing Education Instructions and Disclosure Information:

Contact hours available until 3/28/2028.

Requirements for Successful Completion:
Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) evaluation. You will be able to print your NCPD certificate at any time after you complete the evaluation.

Disclosure of relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies (planners, faculty/speakers, reviewers):

Planning Committee and Abstract Reviewer Disclosures:
There are no Planning Commitee and Abstract Reviewer disclosures to declare.

Speaker Disclosures:
Nicole Wilson discloses that she is an employee of BD.

Commercial Support:
No commercial support declared.

Accreditation Statement:
This educational activity is jointly provided by Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. (AJJ) and the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA).

Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Learning Outcome:
After completing this learning activity, the participant will be able to
• Define nursing informatics’ role in cybersecurity.
• Discuss the difference between cyber risk and safety risk.
• Identify mitigations that can reduce safety risk.

Nicole Wilson MSN, RN, CPHIMS

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