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BACKGROUND

A National Informatics Agenda for Nursing Education and Practice - Examines US federal initiatives to build the Nation’s technology infrastructure and enable nurses to use technology routinely in delivering care. The report establishes five informatics goals.

Nursing Informatics: Enhancing Patient Care - US National Nursing Research Agenda presents this complete online volume detailing new technologies and informatics theory in the context of patient care.

National Nursing Informatics Project Discussion Paper - In 1998 a national steering committee was formed to address Nursing Informatics issues and develop strategies to ensure that Registered Nurses have the competencies required to successfully carry out the responsibilities of their practice - whether that be clinical, administrative, educational or research. The committee membership represented the Canadian Association of University Schools of Nursing, Canadian Nurses Association, Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia, Academy of Canadian Executive Nurses and COACH Nursing Informatics Group.

JOURNALS

CARING - pdf newsletter on technology in nursing from Capital Area Roundtable on Informatics in Nursing.

Health Informatics Europe -is a web based journal edited by Dr Ahmad Risk and Dr David Rayne, and published by BJHC Ltd. HIE is an official journal of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI). The journal aims to deliver up to date and accurate information targeted at European health informatics professionals, health care IM&T managers, academics in the field of health informatics, health care managers in national government and the European Commission and the industry providing products and services in this field.

The Informatics Review - is a electronic serial designed to allow busy medical and information system professionals interested in the latest academic developments in clinical informatics and computing to stay abreast of this rapidly evolving field.

ITIN - the official journal of the British Computer Society Nursing Specialist Group. It aims to present papers, comment and other materials which are relevant, authoritative and wide ranging in the area of information and communications technologies, directly or indirectly influenced by and/or influencing nursing and the professions allied to medicine, in the UK, Europe and the wider international community.

Journal of Computer Mediated Communication - JCMC is a free peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

Journal of Medical Internet Research - the On-line Journal of Nursing Informatics. OJNIC is committed to providing a free electronic presence for the dissemination of nursing informatics knowledge and wisdom.

OJNI - The international scientific journal for eHealth - Medical research, information and communication on the internet. Peer reviewed.