Building a Nurse-Led AI Strategy for Care Delivery Transformation

Hosted by the AONL-AHA Learning Community

Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 11:00 AM

Building a Nurse-Led AI Strategy for Care Delivery Transformation

This webinar will explore how nurse leaders can shape enterprise AI strategy in ways that connect innovation, governance, workforce transformation and measurable care delivery outcomes. Presenters will discuss real-world applications of AI in nursing, including ambient documentation, AI-assisted workflows, and emerging models of care, while emphasizing the leadership structures, measurement strategies, and change capabilities needed for sustainable adoption. Using early-adopter ambient AI nursing documentation work as an implementation example, the session will highlight lessons learned across academic, community, adult and pediatric settings. Participants will leave with practical insights for building scalable, nurse-led AI innovation programs that improve clinician experience, operational performance, patient experience and care outcomes.

Learning Outcomes:

• Describe how nurse leaders can develop AI-enabled nursing strategies that align innovation, workforce transformation and measurable care delivery outcomes.

About the Presenters

April Saathoff, DNP, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, VP & Chief Nursing Information Officer, Johns Hopkins Health System

April Saathoff, DNP, RN, NI-BC, CPHIMS, is Vice President and Chief Nursing Information Officer for the Johns Hopkins Health System and an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. With more than 25 years of nursing experience and certifications in Healthcare Information Management Systems and Nursing Informatics, she leads enterprise-wide initiatives that advance innovative technologies, optimize clinical workflows, and strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration. Her expertise spans nursing informatics, evidence-based practice, health IT strategy, implementation, governance, and strategic planning.

Tracy L. Breece, MSN, RN, CENP, NI-BC, CPHIMS, is a nursing executive and systems thinker who leads enterprise initiatives at Advocate Health. Her work focuses on creating the foundational connections between clinical practice, operational strategy, digital tools, and emerging technologies to build healthcare systems that are more adaptive, sustainable, and responsive to the needs of nurses and patients. With extensive experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives, Tracy helps organizations move beyond technology implementation to engineer environments where people, processes, and innovation are intentionally designed to work together.

The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Learning Community Webinars offer attendees the opportunity to earn up to 1.0 contact hours.
AONL is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number 15740.

By attending a Learning Community Webinar offered by the American Organization for Nursing Leadership participants may earn up to 1 ACHE Qualifying Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.