Building the Future
An integrated strategy for nursing human resources in Canada is a milestone project; the first national nursing study that is both endorsed and led by the nursing stakeholder groups in Canada.

Canadian Health Computer Drivers Licence Concept Paper
"A number of healthcare IT individuals have expressed an interest in developing a strategy for adoption of a qualification similar to the ECDL (European Computer Drivers Licence) for Canadian health care practitioners. This paper is meant to serve as a catalyst to begin a dialogue about how this might be realized." Information sheet available in pdf or email Lisa Meginbir .

First Nations and Inuit Telehealth Research Project
Telehealth is a partnership between health care providers, health care consumers, communication providers, regulatory agencies, professional groups and the community at large. Hence, telehealth is not just about technology and information, it is about people working together towards the vision of timely, appropriate access to essential health care and health information regardless of location. The overall Canadian strategy is to use telecommunications and information technology as the tools to enhance delivery of health care, and for sharing of health information and expertise.

National Nursing Informatics Project
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. Slide presentation of this Canadian national project. An online version of the final Discussion Paper is also available.

Nursing-Informatics.com - Infusing Nurses with Power for the 21st Century
This Nursing Informatics site offers unique comprehensive resources for Nurses interested in developing related knowledge and applicable skills. This site, created by June Kaminski from Western Canada is intended to become an online mecca for Nurses enthusiastic about the evolving topic of Nursing Informatics in practice, education, research and administration.

The In/Visibility of Nurses in Cyberculture
PhD work devoted to the analysis of nurses' presence in cyberspace as communities of practice, authors, designers, disseminators of health information, in dialogue, and nursing's media image.

What is Nursing Informatics and why is it so important?
Canadian Nurses Association Bulletin: Nursing Now, Number 11, September 2001. A detailed comprehensive newsletter feature outlining the status and need for nursing informatics development in Canada.

International

International Nursing Informatics: A history of the first forty years 1960-2000
Written by Maureen Scholes, Marianne Tallberg and Elly Pluyter-Wenting, published by the British Computer Society, April 2000. This book is the history of this development written by three nurses who were involved in the movement from the beginning. The book covers the origins and development of the international Nursing Informatics Group (IMIA NI), together with their conferences and publications that contributed to the advancement of the subject. Ideas, thoughts, experiences, and results are recorded. Trends are discussed and attention is given to the future of nursing informatics in the context of attaining good quality patient care.

Nursing-Informatics.net
UK based, Peter Murray provides an index and global resource of other nursing informatics resources - linking to groups, publications, and the many miscellaneous nursing informatics resources that are available on the web.

Quanta: the Nursing Informatics Weblog
A part of nursing-informatics.net, Quanta will provide a frequently-updated digest of nursing informatics news, views, events, and other miscellania. The Quanta team are Peter Murray and Angela Lewis.

Telemedicine Information Exchange & Research Center
Comprehensive, international, quality filtered online resource for information about telemedicine and telemedicine related activities. A non-profit public service research organization dedicated to promoting telemedicine research and the creating, managing and disseminating infromation about telemedicine related issues.

VIPS Portal: Nursing Planning and Documentation
European initiatives, services and courses related to nursing record systems, planning and documentation. VIPS Portal offers the opportunity to test tools, or more specific electronic versions of nursing records. The purpose is to show you some examples of nursing documentation based on the structuralist methods of VIPS Model

USA

The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care
Health care professionals and policymakers seeking to ensure greater value in health care services face many boundary conditions that are fixed and a host of problems that are not. Today, the opportunity to affect one of those boundary conditions—the information management capabilities in health care—is within our grasp. This report advocates the prompt development and implementation of computer-based patient records (CPRs). Put simply, this Institute of Medicine committee believes that CPRs and CPR systems have a unique potential to improve the care of both individual patients and populations and, concurrently, to reduce waste through continuous quality improvement.

NCNA: Council on Nursing Informatics
The American Nurses Association identified nursing informatics as an area of specialty practice. In may, 1993, the North Carolina Nurses Association (NCNA) approved the formation of a Council on Nursing Informatics (CoNI) as a structural unit of the organization. The Council offers opportunities for nurse informaticists and other nurses interested in informatics to meet, network, discuss issues, and attend programs that enhance their knowledge of the specialty.

The Nurses' Place at Meditech
This site has been created to assist health professionals using the Meditech Hospital and Nursing Information Systems. It is just a place to share ideas and find someone to network with.

Nursing Informatics Competency Project
Presented by the New York University School of Medicine, this site offers a nursing competency tutorial, clinical research forms, and nursing CEU information.

Nursing Informatics Frequently Asked Questions
Compiled by Susan K Newbold - a useful page outlining helpful answers to commonly asked questions by nurses interested in developing competency in nursing informatics.

Nursing Informatics: Enhancing Patient Care
Published as part of the National Nursing Research Agenda, through the National Institute of Nursing Research. This is the complete online report of Priority Expert Panel E: Nursing Informatics, one of a series of expert panels constituted by the National Center for Nursing Research (NCNR) in conjunction with the development of the National Nursing Research Agenda (NNRA).

Nursing Information and Data Set Evaluation Center (NIDSEC) Standards and Scoring Guidelines
Published as a public draft for review by the American Nurses Association, a comprehensive 57 page report (pdf format) on nursing data sets.

What is Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter?
A thoughtful article by Rob Kling for D-LIB Magazine, on social informatics. A serviceable working conception of "social informatics" is that it identifies a body of research that examines the social aspects of computerization. A more formal definition is "the interdisciplinary study of the design, uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts."

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