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color=#6c6557 size=2><B> VOLUME 4, NO.
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<P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG><I>Infusing Nurses
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<P align=left><FONT face=arial size=2>This is the
second 2007 issue of <I>NI News</I> - the
quarterly free ezine from the site Nursing
Informatics.com. </FONT></P>
<P align=left><FONT face=arial size=2>This
publication offers articles, news, product and
systems analyses, tech resources and dialogue on
global nursing informatics issues, discoveries and
theory. We will provide a comprehensive view of
informatics in practice, education, research and
administration. </FONT></P>
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<CENTER><FONT face=arial size=2>As Editor in
Charge of Virtual Nursing Practice and Culture, I
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<P align=center><EM><STRONG><FONT face=arial
size=4>Virtual Nursing Practice and Culture:
Shaping Our Place in
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<TD vAlign=top width="50%"><FONT face=arial
size=2>The virtual environment is evolving into a
context for professional collaboration, content
exchange, mentorship and creative endeavors.
Cyberspace is becoming an accessible place for the
building of intellectual assets, where knowledge
can be effectively identified, distributed and
shared with peers. Nursing professionals are
joining this growing evolution in a number of
different ways. Nursing research and experiential
papers focused on the use of virtual environments
in these contexts provide insight into this
developing phenomenon. Communities can amplify
innovation – when groups become aware of what they
can do online, they go beyond problem-solving and
start inventing together.<BR><BR><B>A Breeding
Ground <BR>for Brilliance</B> <BR><BR>The Internet
has been described as the greatest social network
known to date. One of the most powerful social
implications of computer-mediated communication is
the potential to support interaction in unbounded
social networks. Key benefits of these networks
include accelerated knowledge transfer, including
tacit knowledge, agility and productivity,
creativity and professional optimization.
<BR><BR>Creativity, interaction/sharing, and
innovation are also offshoots of virtual
professional networks or communities of practice.
Innovation usually manifests as a fluid, open,
diverse, unpredictable and dynamic process. The
advances of communications and information
technologies have created entirely new vectors for
opportunity for fostering innovation. The Internet
has become a prime motivator and catalyst for
innovation. This is partly due to its enormous
role in promoting the dissemination of massive
amounts of information on a global scale.
Specialized knowledge becomes more mainstream,
stimulating new thinking and ways of looking at
things and ideas. We need to articulate how the
ingenuity and insight of nurses are being voiced
and demonstrated within the online medium.
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<TD vAlign=top width="50%"><FONT face=arial
size=2><B>The Sense of <BR>Place and Space</B>
<BR><BR>One unique phenomenon that serves as a
foundation for a study of virtual culture is the
dwelling place, the actual social space that is
perceived within the online environment. The
online environment provides a different dimension
of topos or “place,” a common place in a known or
imagined terrain that people can share as speaker,
co-creator and audience. It is useful to explore
how research, ontology and epistemology are
applied to the context of cyberspace: to digest
the nuances of working deeply with the essence and
time/space anomalies of the virtual environment.
An initial understanding of the unique qualities
of participating within a space that is literally
“not there” yet exists as a tangible experience,
should be one goal of our investigative inquiry.
<BR><BR>The essence of virtual culture is an
elusive phenomenon that has to be experienced to
be understood. Although people have used writing
to communicate for several centuries, the
interaction afforded by cyberspace is perceived as
new, as different and unique. Some have likened it
to the oral traditions embraced by people before
writing became the norm, yet it uses writing or
typing on a computer keyboard as its medium.
<BR><BR>Nursing informatics is advanced by
exploring the ways that nurses are shaping and
contributing to the virtual environment – as
professionals, peers, disseminators of health
information and client education, researchers,
advocates and activists. This focus also
illuminates the culture that permeates and fuels
these activities, and supports ways to identify,
describe and cultivate a culture of nursing
informatics that uses the virtual environment as a
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