{"id":1,"date":"2013-11-05T21:35:13","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T21:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-06-05T18:32:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T02:32:02","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Informatics in Canadian Nursing Education \u2013 it\u2019s time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an educator who has advocated for the inclusion of nursing informatics in education since the 1990s, I am particularly delighted to see advances in Canadian nursing education. In 2012, the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) and Canada Health Infoway partnered to create a catalyst for this advancement. I was privileged to receive their first Nursing Faculty E-Health Award in 2012 which spurred a deep reflection on how informatics has finally taken its rightful place in the design and direction given to nursing curriculum in Canadian post-secondary institutions. \u00a0This fall, a second nurse educator will be honoured with this same award \u2013 a fact that reinforces how important informatics is in 21st<\/sup> century nursing education.<\/p>\n

This partnership also supported the development of nursing informatics entry-to-practice competencies for registered nurses by an appointed expert working group. \u201cThe Competency Development Working Group engaged in a multi-step, iterative process, involving relevant stakeholders from across Canada in developing these entry-to-practice nursing informatics competencies for registered nurses.\u201d (CASN website<\/a>). \u00a0This document<\/a> is freely available for download and is a \u2018must have\u2019 for any practicing nurse in Canada, including nurse educators and their students. \u00a0A corresponding inventory document entitled, CASN Nursing Informatics Inventory: A Report of Existing Teaching and Learning Resources<\/a><\/i> \u00a0also provides a plethora of resources that can help educators, students, and practicing nurses learn more about nursing informatics.<\/p>\n

Now, in 2013, CASN and Canada Health Infoway are launching useful overview sessions, entitled A Lunch Time Information Exchange Webinar Series on Nursing Informatics\/eHealth in Baccalaureate Nursing Education<\/a><\/i>. These sessions will debut on November 4 and 6th<\/sup>, 2013 and will be held in the Western-Northern, Quebec, Atlantic, and Ontario regions.<\/p>\n

As well, CASN and Canada Health Infoway are reaching Canadian nursing students. In 2013, two students won the first Student e-Health award for their inventive mental health app. \u201cAmanda Li and Scott Wight from Trent University were recognized for the creation of the Trent Mental Health Initiative, a mobile application offering private self-screening, information about mental health issues, and local resources and support services for students. The application was built in response to the increased risk of depressive disorders amongst post-secondary students and the stigma associated with mental health disorders within the larger community.\u201d (Canada Health Infoway announcement<\/a>).<\/p>\n

All of these developments are very heartening, and create a momentum where educators and students can jump in, feet first, and test the waters of nursing informatics in a well-directed and confident way. I look forward to more initiatives across our nation \u2013 initiatives that foster the inclusion of informatics in Canadian curriculum. The CJNI fully supports this endeavor and welcomes informatics-related submissions from nursing educators and their students in both undergraduate and graduate programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As an educator who has advocated for the inclusion of nursing informatics in education since the 1990s, I am particularly delighted to see advances in Canadian nursing education. In 2012, the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) and Canada Health Infoway partnered to create a catalyst for this advancement. I was privileged to receive their first Nursing Faculty E-Health Award in 2012 which spurred a deep reflection on how informatics has finally taken its rightful place in the design and direction given to nursing curriculum in Canadian post-secondary institutions. \u00a0This fall, a second nurse educator will be honoured with this same award \u2013 a fact that reinforces how important informatics is in 21st century nursing education. This partnership also supported the development of nursing informatics entry-to-practice competencies for registered nurses by an appointed expert working group. \u201cThe Competency Development Working Group engaged in a multi-step, iterative process, involving relevant stakeholders from across Canada in developing these entry-to-practice nursing informatics competencies for registered nurses.\u201d (CASN website). \u00a0This document is freely available for download and is a \u2018must have\u2019 for any practicing nurse in Canada, including nurse educators and their students. \u00a0A corresponding inventory document entitled, CASN Nursing Informatics Inventory: A Report of Existing Teaching and Learning Resources \u00a0also provides a plethora of resources that can help educators, students, and practicing nurses learn more about nursing informatics. Now, in 2013, CASN and Canada Health Infoway are launching useful overview sessions, entitled A Lunch Time Information Exchange Webinar Series on Nursing Informatics\/eHealth in Baccalaureate Nursing Education. These sessions will debut on November 4 and 6th, 2013 and will be held in the Western-Northern, Quebec, Atlantic, and Ontario regions. As well, CASN and Canada Health Infoway are reaching Canadian nursing students. In 2013, two students won the first Student e-Health award for their inventive mental health app. \u201cAmanda Li and Scott Wight from Trent University were recognized for the creation of the Trent Mental Health Initiative, a mobile application offering private self-screening, information about mental health issues, and local resources and support services for students. The application was built in response to the increased risk of depressive disorders amongst post-secondary students and the stigma associated with mental health disorders within the larger community.\u201d (Canada Health Infoway announcement). All of these developments are very heartening, and create a momentum where educators and students can jump in, feet first, and test the waters of nursing informatics in a well-directed and confident way. I look forward to more initiatives across our nation \u2013 initiatives that foster the inclusion of informatics in Canadian curriculum. The CJNI fully supports this endeavor and welcomes informatics-related submissions from nursing educators and their students in both undergraduate and graduate programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,42],"tags":[34,39,56,8,33,9,10,17],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-research","tag-education-2","tag-health-technology","tag-informatics","tag-june-kaminski","tag-learning","tag-nurses","tag-nursing-informatics","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nursing-informatics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}