Whende M. Carroll, MSN, RN-BC, is the founder of Nurse Evolution, a cause-based nursing community established to educate all nurses on how to expertly use technology, data, and innovation strategies for optimizing nursing care delivery for the health of people and populations. She is a Healthcare IT Consultant, author, and editor of Emerging Technologies for Nurses–Implications for Practice, and a Senior Editor at the Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI), for which she regularly writes about big data-enabled emerging technologies.

Whende graduated from Walden University, Minneapolis, in 2012 with a Master of Science in Nursing with a nursing informatics focus and holds board certification in informatics nursing from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).