Emily Boyce, Ph.D., RN, NI-BC, NE-BC, CNE
Associate Professor-in-Residence
Biography
Emily Boyce joined the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Nursing in 2023 and serves as an associate professor in residence. She brings more than two decades of experience spanning clinical practice, healthcare leadership, nursing informatics, and higher education. Boyce is board certified as a Nurse Executive and Informatics Nurse Specialist through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) and is a Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) through the National League for Nursing (NLN). She is passionate about preparing the next generation of nurse leaders while advancing the effective integration of technology into healthcare delivery.
Expertise
Boyce's primary area of expertise is nursing informatics, with a focus on leveraging health information technology to improve patient safety, clinical workflows, and healthcare quality. Her experience includes systems needs assessment, user requirements analysis, clinical decision support, standardized terminologies, electronic health record (EHR) optimization, system selection and implementation, end-user training, data analytics, quality improvement, and process redesign.
Throughout her career, Boyce has held executive and administrative leadership positions within large healthcare systems and academic institutions. She has led multidisciplinary initiatives to improve EHR documentation integrity, optimize clinical workflows, implement innovative healthcare technologies, and support organizational change. Prior to joining UNLV, she also served as an associate dean at a school of nursing, where she provided strategic leadership for faculty and academic programs.
Her clinical background includes extensive experience in neuroscience and critical care nursing, with practice at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in neurology/neurosurgery and additional intensive care settings.
Classes Taught
Boyce teaches undergraduate, master's, and doctoral nursing students. Her teaching areas include nursing leadership, healthcare policy, nursing informatics, and critical care preceptorship. She is committed to fostering clinical reasoning, leadership development, and technology competencies that prepare graduates for today's rapidly evolving healthcare environment.
Education Background
Dr. Boyce earned her doctoral degree in Nursing Education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She earned a Master’s of Science in Nursing Informatics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore and a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing from The College of New Jersey.
Research or Scholarship
Boyce's research focuses on technology adoption in healthcare and the factors that influence nurses' readiness and acceptance of health information technologies. Her scholarship examines how previous technology experience, implementation strategies, organizational change management, and human factors affect nurses' ability to safely and effectively integrate technology into clinical practice. Her broader interests include nursing education, healthcare innovation, quality improvement, and the use of informatics to enhance patient outcomes.
Awards, Recognitions, or Group Affiliations
Boyce is an active member of numerous professional organizations, including Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the American Nurses Association, the National League for Nursing, the Nevada Nurses Association, the American Nursing Informatics Association, and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
She serves as the UNLV School of Nursing Liaison to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada Research and Evidence-Based Practice Council and is currently secretary of the Sigma Theta Tau Zeta Kappa Chapter.
In recognition of her leadership and contributions to the nursing profession, Boyce was named one of Nevada's "50 Under 50: Shining Stars of Nursing" in 2025.