Sensmeier, J. and Lewis, D. (2007). Survey Demonstrates Importance of Nurse Informaticist Role in Health Information Technology Design and Implementation. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. Volume 25(3), May/June 2007, pp 180-182
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Nursing informatics combines nursing science with computer science together with information processing theory and technology.
The American Nurses Association definition came out in October 2001 as...
“Nursing Informatics is a specialty that integrates nursing science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in nursing practice. Nursing informatics facilitates the integration of data, information and knowledge to support patients, nurses and other providers in their decision-making in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished through the use of information structures, information processes, and information technology.”
(ANA Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice, 2001, pg vii)
Selected Position Statements/Presentations/Surveys
Here you will find presentations, publications and surveys on the functions of the nurse informaticist.
Nursing Informatics 2007 Workforce Survey - Who Are We Now? - Survey Result (2/8/2008)
Nursing Informatics 2004 Workforce Survey - Who are we? - Survey Result (2/8/2008)
Nursing Informatics 101 - Presentation (2/8/2008)
An Emerging Giant: Nursing Informatics - Other Pubs (11/13/2007)
Resources in Nursing & Healthcare Informatics
U.S. & Canada International Misc.
50 Great Learning Tools & Video Games for Nurses & Health Professionals link
New Equipped for Efficiency: Improving Nursing Care Through Technology (pdf)
Fran Turisco and Jared Rhoads, CSC
December 2008
Surveys show that nurses prefer to work in hospitals where safety, quality, and their own job satisfaction are top priorities. New technologies have the potential to improve the environment for nurses by helping them devote more of their time and expertise to caring for patients, rather than tracking down equipment, managing supplies, or locating clinicians and staff
Nursing 101 (pdf) from HIMSS
Updated edition of ANA's Nursing Informatics Practice Scope and Standards of Practice
Introduction to Nursing Informatics (Health Informatics) (Hardcover) by Kathryn J. Hannah (Author), Marion J. Ball (Author), Margaret J.A. Edwards (Author) "We have entered the information age!..." (more)
Sensmeier, J. and Lewis, D. (2007). Survey Demonstrates Importance of Nurse Informaticist Role in Health Information Technology Design and Implementation. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. Volume 25(3), May/June 2007, pp 180-182
Nursing Informatics Job descriptions
Neil Versel's Healthcare IT Blog - after being unable to find a publication interested in buying a story from a patient safety-related event I had planned on covering, I came to realize that significant portions of the healthcare community and media are paying little more than lip service to the issue of improving healthcare quality through information technology and consumer education. This blog seeks to help remedy that con
Nursing Informatics Job Descriptions on Nursing Informatics Online
Clinical Cases Blog: The blog of ClinicalCases.org with medical, tech and other interesting stories
American Nurses Credentialing Center - The mission of ANCC is to improve nursing practice and promote high-quality health care services through voluntary credentialing programs and related services.
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) - Professional association representing more than 40,000 specially educated health information management professionals who work throughout the healthcare industry.
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) - A nonprofit 501(c)(3) membership organization of individuals, institutions, and corporations dedicated to developing and using information technologies to improve health care.
Introduction to Healthcare Informatics Standards (AMIA)
American Telemedicine Association - Resource and advocate promoting access to medical care for consumers and health professionals via telecommunications technology.
Association of Telehealth Service Providers (ATSP) - The Association of Telehealth Service Providers is an international membership-based organization dedicated to improving health care through growth of the telehealth industry,
American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing Informatics SIG - The purpose of the Informatics Special Interest Group is: to advance and expand the general AAACN members' knowledge of current information systems and new technologies that identify, describe, monitor and track nursing practice in ambulatory health care settings.
Alliance for Nursing Informatics - The Alliance for Nursing Informatics is a collaboration of organizations that represent a unified voice for nursing informatics. The Alliance represents more than 3,000 nurses and brings together 20 distinct nursing informatics groups in the United States.
Biohealthmatics- networking site dedicated to the biotechnology and healthcare IT professionals
Boston Area Nursing Informatics Consortium (BANIC) - A not-for-profit organization that provides a forum for resource and information exchange in the field of clinical informatics.
Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) - A new organization working to become the voice for Nursing Informatics in Canada
CARING Online - (Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing) - The Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing is a professional network of healthcare information systems professionals in the Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia areas.
CIN - Computers, Informatics, Nursing covers the application of computer technology to contemporary nursing practice, explaining the "how-to" and "why" at each step of the way. From the computer novice to experienced user, CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing offers a complete package that delivers realistic solutions in high-quality, peer-reviewed articles.
Central Savannah River Area - Clinical Informatics Network (CSRA-CIN) - Provides a forum for the interchange of ideas among those committed to the goal of improving patient care through the effective use of information technology.
Connecticut Healthcare Informatics Network (CHIN) - A Connecticut based organization with a mission to promote awareness and communication of computer technology in healthcare.
Digital Nurse (Duke University)
Educational Technology and Information Management Advisory Council - The purpose of the Educational Technology and Information Management Advisory Council (ETIMAC) is to promote the effective use of technology in nursing education
FierceHealthIT is a source of Healthcare IT news with a special focus on CPOE, EMR adoption, HIPAA compliance and other critical areas.
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) - The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society provides leadership in healthcare for the management of technology, information and change through publications, educational opportunities and member services. HIMSS has 37 chapters and more than 12,000 members working in healthcare organizations throughout the world.
Healthcare411.org Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) has a new audio newscast series to help keep people informed of the Agency's latest health care research findings, news, and information. AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. They are the lead agency in the effort to improve patient safety and reduce medical errors.
Health On the Net (HON) - HON's mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information. HON provides leadership in setting ethical standards for Web site developers.
iHealthbeat - iHealthBeat is a free, daily news digest reporting on the Internet's impact on health care. iHealthBeat is part of the California HealthCare Foundation's commitment to important issues affecting health care policy, delivery and financing.
Health Resources and Services Administration - Grants
HIMSS Nursing Informatics Task Force - Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society - Nursing Informatics
Informatics-review - e-journal of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems
Informatics Nurses From Ohio (INFO) - INFO's mission is to promote networking in nursing informatics in Ohio.
International Partnership for Health Informatics Education seeks to promote education through international collaboration of graduate and undergraduate training programs in Medical and Health Informatics.
Manitoba Nursing Informatics Association Website Manitoba, Canada Contact Patricia Rothney, prothney@wrha.mb.ca Established 2002
The Markle Foundation Health program is to accelerate the rate at which information technology enables consumers and the health system that supports them to improve health and healthcare.
Medgadget - Internet journal of emerging medical technologies
Medpix - Free Online Access To Medical Image Database
Medtech Wiki an open source knowledge base about medical technologies and devices.
Michigan Nursing Informatics Network - Contact Ms Sanders sanderjl@trinity-health.org
Minnesota Nursing Informatics Group (MINING) - Open to those interested in the support and scholarship of nursing and health care informatics.
National League for Nursing (NLN) Nursing Educational Technology Information Management Advisory Council (ETIMAC) - Contact nlninform@nln.org
Nursing Informatics (NI) metasite with extensive set of resources for the nurse practicing in informatics.
North Carolina Nurses Association Council of Nursing Informatics: Opportunities for informatics nurses in North Carolina and other nurses interested in informatics to meet, network, discuss issues, and attend programs that enhance their knowledge of the specialty.
Nursing Education Research, Technology, & Information Management - NLN - The purpose of the Nursing Education Research, Technology, and Information Management Advisory Council (NERTIMAC) for the NLN is to advance the science and art of nursing education by fostering the initiation, development, facilitation, and dissemination of nursing education research, as well as the implementation of relevant findings into nursing education (a component of the new NLN Advisory Council structure).
http://www.nursingworld.org/npii// on Standardized nursing languages and the nursing practice information infrastructure.
RNs holding office in the respective state legislatures & local government offices
Perinatal Information Systems User Group (PISUG) - Contact: President debaiton@aol.com or pisug@aol.com
Puget Sound Nursing Informatics - Puget Sound Nursing Informatics Organization
Tennessee Nursing Association Nursing Informatics Council - Contact: roz@chartertn.net
The Tiger Initiative - The TIGER initiative aims to enable practicing nurses and nursing students to fully engage in the unfolding digital electronic era in healthcare. The purpose of the initiative is, to identify information/knowledge management best practices and effective technology capabilities for nurses. TIGER’s goal is to create and disseminate local and global action plans that can be duplicated within nursing and other multidisciplinary healthcare training and workplace settings.
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology is a non-profit, member-based organization focused on how healthcare information technology can and will improve healthcare outcomes.
Technology CEO Council is the information technology industry`s public policy advocacy organization comprising Chief Executive Officers from America’s leading information technology companies.
Utah Nursing Informatics Network (UNIN) - Contact: lplheerm@ihc.com or cokrepko@ihc.com
WINI, (Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics) is a nursing informatics continuing education course that travels around the country to provide affordable, in-depth nursing informatics education
British Computer Society (BCS) - Nursing Specialist Group - A UK organization for nurses and therapists interested in the management and use of information to improve care, the development of learning programs for all staff, enabling better response to patient inquiry, and improved direction to nursing and therapy specialties for clinical information and education.
Brasilian Nursing Association Nursing Informatics Group - Contact Heimar F. Marin heimar@denf.epm.br or Christine Cunha icris@denf.epm.br
Electronic Journal of Health Informatics - The electronic Journal of Health Informatics is an international journal committed to scholarly excellence and dedicated to the advancement of Health Informatics and information technology in healthcare. It is a journal for all health professions and informaticians of all levels.
International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) - Promotes informatics in health care and research in health, bio and medical informatics, advances international cooperation, stimulates research, disseminates informatics knowledge, information and technology, and promotes education and responsible behavior. represent the medical and health informatics field with the World Health Organization
IMIA-NI--International Medical Informatics Association-Nursing Informatics - The Special Interest Group of Nursing Informatics of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). It is a non profit organization, originally established by IMIA in 1983 as Working Group 8 of IMIA, dedicated to serving the specific needs of nurses in the field of nursing informatics. Check out the other Special Interest Groups too.
Nursing Informatics Europe -- European Federation for Medical Informatics - EFMI Nursing Working Group 5 supports nurses and nursing organizations in the European countries with information and contacts and the field of informatics.
NURSINFO:Hong Kong - Contact Helen Sit Wing-Fun sithwf@ha.org.hk
Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group of the GMDS - Contact: schrader@ami1.ukl.uni-freiburg.de
Spanish for Medical Personnel - a company that provides Medical Spanish programs for healthcare professionals.
Swiss Special Interest Group Nursing Informatics (SIG--NI) - Contact: pvangele@chuv.hospvd.ch
COR Health - analyses of mission-critical trends plus practical strategies
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