Willa Fields, DNSc, RN
Dr. Willa Fields, Associate Professor of Nursing, San Diego State University School of Nursing. Willa Fields has a diverse background in clinical nursing, education, research, performance improvement, management, and information systems and was formerly Vice President of Patient Care Information Systems at Sharp Healthcare Systems in San Diego. Her research area of interest is in electronic health records, environmental and cultural factors affecting implementations, and the affect of computerized provider order entry systems on patient safety and adverse drug events. She is presently researching the impact of implementing a computerized provider order entry computer system on adverse drug event outcomes. Dr. Fields has published widely on the topic of information technology in nursing, among other topics, in journals such as the Journal of Nursing Care Quality, Computers in Nursing and the Journal of Nursing Quality Assurance. She has received honors such as the Excellence in Research Award in 1987 and Distinguished Lecturer in 2000 from Sigma Theta Tau.
