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<P align=left><FONT face=arial size=2>This is the
current 2008 issue of <I>NI News</I> - the free
ezine from the site Nursing Informatics.com.
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<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
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<CENTER><FONT face=arial size=2>Read the OJNI -
<BR>The Online Journal of<BR>Nursing
Informatics<BR><BR><A href="http://ojni.org"
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<CENTER><FONT face=arial size=2>As Editor in
Charge of Virtual Nursing Practice and Culture, I
invite you to submit your research and other
papers related to using the online environment as
a nursing context for OJNI publication.
<BR><BR>Please note:<BR>The OJNI announces the
launch of the OJNI Virtual Nursing Informatics
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<P align=center><EM><STRONG><FONT face=arial
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<TD vAlign=top width="50%"><FONT face=arial
size=2>June Kaminski wrote Chapter Three,
"Computer Science and the Foundation of Knowledge
Model" for the new text, <A
href="http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763753283/">Nursing
Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge
</A>which will be published by Jones and Bartlett
in 2009. <BR><BR>ISBN-13:
9780763753283<BR>ISBN-10: 0763753289<BR>$52.95
(Sugg. US List)<BR>Paperback<BR>499
Pages<BR><BR>This textbook was edited by Dr. Dee
McGonigle and Dr. Kathleen Mastrian, both faculty
at Penn State University. Dee is also the Editor
in Chief of the Online Journal of Nursing
Informatics. The list of authors is like a who's
who of nursing informatics, offering a very usable
and invaluable tool for either teaching
informatics or for personal professional
development reading. The companion book site comes
complete with student and instructor resources,
including powerpoints, flashcards, crosswords,
test banks, pod casts, instructors manual and
tools and informatics updates. <A
href="http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763753283/">Click
here to visit the Book site. </A><BR><BR>Nursing
Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge covers
the history of healthcare informatics, current
issues, basic informatics concepts, and health
information management applications. With
comprehensive introductory chapters that explain
the core sciences of nursing informatics, students
will understand Information Systems and
incorporate their own knowledge for further
comprehension. Based on The Foundation of
Knowledge Model© 2007, this text explains how
nursing informatics relates to knowledge
acquisition, knowledge processing, knowledge
generation, knowledge dissemination and feedback,
all of which build the science of nursing.
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<H3>Chapter Three Excerpt</H3>
<H3>Looking to the Future</H3>The coming trends in
wearable technology, smaller and faster hand held
and portable computer systems, and high quality
voice-activated inventions will further facilitate
the utility of computers in nursing practice and
professional development. The field of computer
science will continue to contribute to the
evolving art and science of nursing informatics.
New trends promise to bring wide-sweeping and
hopefully, positive changes to the practice of
nursing. Computers and other technologies have the
potential to support a more client-oriented health
care system where clients truly become active
participants in their own health care planning and
decisions. Mobile health technology, tele-nursing,
sophisticated electronic health records, and next
generation technology are predicted to contribute
to high quality nursing care and consultation
within health care settings, including patients'
homes and communities.<BR><BR>Computers will
become more powerful yet more compact which will
contribute to the development of several
technological initiatives which are still in their
infancy at this point. The following include some
of these initiatives.<BR><BR></FONT></TD>
<TD vAlign=top width="50%"><FONT face=arial
size=2><B>Voice Activated Communicators</B> are
already being developed in Silicon Valley by
companies like Vocera Communications Inc. These
new technologies will permit nurses and other
health care professionals to use wireless,
hands-free devices to communicate with each other,
and to record data. This can promote this
technology which promises to become a
user-friendly and cost-effective way to increase
clinical productivity.<BR><BR><B>Game and
Simulation Technology </B>promises to offer
realistic, innovative ways to teach nursing
content in general, including nursing informatics
concepts and skills. The same technology that
powers video games can be used to create dynamic
educational interfaces to help student nurses
learn about pathophysiology, care guidelines,
medication usage, and a host of other topics.
These applications can also be very valuable for
client education and health promotion materials.
The 'serious games' industry is just beginning to
develop. Video game producers are now looking
beyond mere entertainment to address public and
private policy, management, and leadership issues
and topics, including health care related ones.
For instance, the Games for Health Project,
initiated by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is
working on developing best practices to support
innovation in health care training, messaging, and
illness management.<BR><BR><B>Virtual Reality (VR)
</B>is another technological breakthrough that
will become common in nursing education and
professional development. Basically, VR is a three
dimensional computer generated “world” where a
person (with the right equipment) can move about
and interact as if he or she were actually in the
visualized location. The person's senses are
immersed in this VR world using special gadgetry
such as head-mounted displays, DataGloves,
joysticks, and other hand tools. The equipment and
special technology provides a sense of presence
that is lacking in multimedia and other complex
programs. <BR><BR><B>Mobile Devices </B>will be
used more by nurses both at the point-of-care and
in planning, documenting, interacting with the
health care team, and in research. “There are
strong indicators that nursing is ready to move
quickly to adopt this new technology and utilize
it to its full potential at the point-of-care. We
anticipate the rate of adoption for mobile
information systems within nursing to be rapid,
and it will ultimately equal and perhaps exceed
that of physicians. Mobile Nursing Informatics
will be at the core of nursing in the 21st
century. Ready access to data and analytical tools
will fundamentally change the way practitioners of
the health sciences conduct research, and approach
and solve problems.” (Suszka-Hildebrandt, 2000,
p.3).<BR><BR>These predicted innovations are only
some of the many computer and technological
applications being developed. As nurses gain
proficiency in capitalizing on the creative,
time-saving, and interactive capabilities emerging
from information technology research, the field of
nursing informatics will grow in similar
proportions. <BR><BR><BR><BR><A
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