NCNA Council on Nursing Informatics Blog

Thinking about the ANCC Nursing Informatics Certification?

If you have been thinking about getting your ANCC Nursing Informatics certification, you might want to put together a study plan & sit for the current exam under current prices.

ANCC has posted its announcement about the new content outline and percentages for the 2012 NI certification exam that will be offered beginning May 7, 2012.

More details at:http://www.nursecredentialing.org/Documents/Certification/TestContentOutlines/Informatics-TCO2012.aspx

 

ANA has redesigned its Nursing CE resource page...

This just in from Carol Bickford!  Spread the word.  

ANA has redesigned its CE resource page that now includes easier navigation, a CE tracking system, and LOTS and LOTS of FREE!!! modules that can be used for certification, re-certification, and RN license renewal applications. Note that even non-members also have a great selection of free courses. Check it out at http://ananursece.healthstream.com/.

ANA seeking public comment on Principles of Social Networking and the Nurse draft

The American Nurses Association's (ANA) Congress on Nursing Practice and Economic (CNPE) is seeking public comment on the "Principles of Social Networking and the Nurse."

Relying on an Action of the 2010 ANA House of Delegates, “Social Networking and the Nurse,” ANA staff, in consultation with the CNPE Practice and Regulation Workgroup and the ANA Ethics Advisory Board, developed an outline of professional principles to guide nurses in their use of social media. 

Please go to the following website, download the draft document and provide feedback in the displayed form by June 9th, 2011.  

http://www.nursingworld.org/DocumentVault/NewsAnnouncements/Comments-Principles-of-Social-Networking.aspx

 

 

Happy Certified Nurses Day!

Today is Certified Nurses Day -- Happy Certification!

Yesterday, Cindy Garrett gave a timely and great presentation on preparing for certification at the NCNA CoNI quarterly meeting in Raleigh NC.

It was also mentioned that the Nursing Informatics exam will be changing so if you are planning on certification, do it this year:

 

The ANCC completed the first role delineation study of certified informatics nurses this year and the results will be available sometime next year on the ANCC website.  A new version of the certification exam will be offered beginning Spring 2012. 

 

Please visit the ANCC website for more information on how to prepare and register for the current exam. 

ANCC Informatics Certification

 

Advance for Nurses - Informatics Column

Did you know that Advance for Nurses has an Informatics column?

There appear to be eight articles since last October.  

Read and enjoy!

Advance for Nurses-Informatics

2011 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey Results available

Here is the page with the link for the 2011 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey Results made available on Feb 19th, 2011.

It is on the HIMSS "What is Nursing Informatics" page. Not sure if it was appropriate to actually attach the file (copyright, etc etc) so here is the link to the link...

Click the 2011 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey Full Results link. 

HIMSS What is Nursing Informatics

Read and enjoy!

 

ONC Nurse Consultant Job posting-Spread the word-Apply by Jan 20, 2011

Spread the word. Let's get someone fabulous in this position...

This open ONC Job Announcement requires a combination of Health Information Exchange, Health IT and nursing experience.  It is called Nurse Consultant.  The Job Announcement Number is below so that people can go directly to the posting to find out more information.

To apply:  Go to usajobs.gov

Job Announcement Number: HHS-OS-13-2011-0049

- Serve as ONC subject matter expert on the unintended consequences of health IT and electronic health information exchange, the impact of health IT on patient safety, and health IT usability.

- Serve as a liaison to the Federal advisory committees, particularly the Health Information Technology Policy Committee and the Health Information TEchnology Standards Committee providing advice and with particular attention to the anticipating unintended consequences of health IT and electronic health information exchange, the impact of health IT on patient safety, and health IT usability.
- Forge alliances with patient safety organizations, quality measurement and reporting organizations, quality and patient safety advocates, and Federal and state agencies to further the unintended consequences and patient safety agenda.
- Develop or identify best practices relative to unintended consequences from health IT, including health IT safety, and strategies for disseminating best practices to providers and other stakeholders, as appropriate.
- Investigate options to existing state and Federal policy and legislation including analyzing and reporting on current strategies or levers and their success in promoting patient safety related to health IT and anticipating unintended consequences of health IT and health information exchange and propose modifications or new strategies when appropriate.
- Monitor the health IT vendor and medical industry environments, including patients, providers and payors, with respect to issues that could affect health IT adoption and health information exchange and advise the Division Director and other ONC leadership regarding potential policy barriers, concerns and avenues for resolution.
- Serve as liaison with FDA and AHRQ on policies related to patient safety for HIT-reports and determining appropriate response.
- Develop strategies for patient engagement and feedback mechanisms in identifying and preventing adverse or unintended consequesces relatd to EHRs, PHRs other health IT and health information exchange.
- Develop strategies across ONC programs, and generate new program ideas (e.g., studies, research, focus groups, etc) and justify budgets for policy and program development related to health IT safety, health IT usability, and other ways to mitigate unintended consequences of health IT.

Updated the CoNI brochure for Convention!

Hi all,

The CoNI brochure has been updated so we can hand it out at the NCNA convention.  

If we don't see you in Winston-Salem this week @ convention, then be sure to check out the attached PDF.

Download CoNI_2010_11_Brochure

Tiny Twitter Tips

Tiny Twitter Tips from Connie Bishop and Ellie Hunt

·      You can search Twitter: http://search.twitter.com 

·      ‘tweet’ is what you do when you enter in a What’s happening?

·      Follow - allows you to follow a particular person or tweet or list

·      Profile = your picture, a short bio and list of tweets

·      Lists = allows you to put people you follow into a category, and then others can follow your list

·      @ = “at reply” or newer “mention” – attach to twitter names so that person is aware you mentioned them

·      # = hashtag to create a tag for easier search – this is used for conferences or events going on, so others can search on the single search and find all the tweets.  Eg:  #CoNI to see CoNI related tweets or #HIMSS10 for the most recent conference

·      DM = direct message, a private message

·      RT = retweet, to re-post something. This is now indicated with a symbol.

·      Use a twitter app like TweetDeck, http://tweetdeck.com  or Hootsuite www.hootsuite.com which allows to post to Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin from ONE place and manage/watch your accounts.

·      http://twittonary.com/   a Twitter dictionary

Call for Nursing Informatics Job Descriptions

The “ANI Advanced Nursing Informatics Resources Task Force” has taken on the challenge of developing standardized role and job descriptions.  As part of that work, this group is soliciting informatics nurse job descriptions.  

They are seeking your critical feedback and are soliciting informatics nurse job descriptions.  All job descriptions will be 'blinded' all by the removal of all entity specific identifiable information, and they will be used as a guide as this group develops role descriptions for each level of NI practice.  We're especially looking for keywords and specific role functions in the job descriptions. We're not going to use any submitted job description - rather, we will use pieces/words from them to create a standard job description for each level of NI practice.

 

If you could send any NI positions descriptions that you use, we would really appreciate it. While we've gotten the ones from the AMIA-NI page, the more the better - we want to ensure that we've looked at as much data as we can.

 

          Please feel free to send them directly (please don't post to the blog) to:

Daniel Gracie  gracied@musc.edu  

Ruth MacCallum  ruth.maccallum@ingenixconsulting.com

Melissa Barthold - melissafo@baptisthealth.net

Denise Tyler dtyler@kdhcd.org

 

Once this resource has been created it will be available for public comment in draft form and once finalized available to the public on the ANI site.