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CoNI meeting on May 20th in Concord NC

The next CoNI meeting will be held Friday, May 20, 2011 in  Concord, NC (10:00am-3:00pm). 

The address for the meeting place is:  845 Church Street North; Suite 204 Concord, NC 28025. 

There are continuing education and networking opportunities at all CoNI meetings, in addition to the quarterly CoNI business meetings. 

The $25 fee is for non NCNA members who whish to receive credit for the CE’s. 

10 am – Becky Kitzmiller on NC Health Information Exchange

11 am-11:30am - CoNI Business Meeting

11:30am - 1pm - Lunch & Networking 

1 pm – Howard Ommert on Who is Gaining Access to Your Systems and How? by Howard Ommert, Regional Manager, eCommerce Fraud and Electronic Crimes Investigations, Bank of America

2 pm - Connie Bishop on 6 Hats Process of Problem Solving

Please RSVP to Ellie Hunt or via a comment in this blog (note:  comments are moderated so Ellie will get the email but will not post it)

Kind Regards,

Ellie Hunt, MSN, RN, BC

NCNA Council of Nursing Informatics, Chair

Personal Twitter:  EHuntRN

CoNI Twitter:  NCNACoNI

CoNI Blog:  http://informatics.toolshed.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

 

 

Wake AHEC offering on-line CE learning

Wake AHEC offering on-line CE learning

As much as I enjoy setting aside the time and networking while getting CE, I also enjoy being able to get CE on my own via online learning.  Wake AHEC just sent me an email about their OnLine Learning Offerings and I thought I'd share the link.

The Nursing Webcasts I looked at offered 1.5 contact hours for $15. 

Take a look at their offerings:  Wake AHEC online learning

--Ellie Hunt

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

 

Reminder: CoNI meeting 3/18/2011 at Duke Raleigh

Friday, March 18th is the CoNI meeting @ Duke Raleigh  1305 Navaho Drive, Raleigh NC.  

Note Room change: Medical Office Building 4.  We are in room 101

10am-3pm at Duke Raleigh Hospital hosted by Glenda Debord.

10am: Dona Caine Francis on Nurses Transforming Nursing (CE)

11am: CoNI meeting & lunch @ Bahama Breeze 

1pm: Cindy Garrett on Certification Tips (CE)

2pm: Deb Aldridge on Beacon Program (CE)

See you there!

 

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!

 

What is an ARRA Beacon Community program?

Did you know NC has a Beacon Community Program?  

NCNA Council on Nursing Informatic's vice-chair Deb Aldridge MSN, RN-BC is the Beacon Project Manager of the Southern Piedmont Community Care Plan.

Check out the following video to learn more about the Beacon Community Programs across the nation:  

ONC HIT Youtube Beacon Community Programs

And here is a link to the Southern Piedmont Beacon video:  Southern Piedmont Beacon ONC HIT Youtube video

Meaningful Use Stage 2, comments solicited & public meetings announced

The Meaningful Use Workgroup is seeking comments on proposed stage 2 measures from the public on a draft document of preliminary recommendations it has developed. There are new measures, other measures increase in percentage, and 'menu' measures in Stage 1 become mandatory in Stage 2

Please refer to ONC’s Web site at http://healthit.hhs.gov to access this draft document and for more information about how to submit comments. Comments due 2/25/2011. You may submit electronic comments on this request for comment at http://www.regulations.gov. This draft document is attached here.   Download MU_RFC _2011-01-12_final

HIT Policy Committee’s Meaningful Use Workgroup Meetings; Notice of Meetings and Request for Comments - public comment meetings will be held in March and early April, 2011. See the Federal Register announcement for more detail.  Download FederalRegister_2011-885

Please notice in your review & comments how nursing measures and nursing data could be or should be incorporated into these measures. 

 

Calls for 2011 Proposals for AMIA, HIMSS, IHI, SINI

From our ANI friends, please note the following Conference Dates and Call for Proposals:

AMIA: AMIA 2011 Annual Symposium on Biomedical and Health Informatics, please note the Symposium is held earlier this year on October 22-26, 2011. Call for proposals open until March 17, 2011: www.amia.org/amia2011.

HIMSS: The HIMSS Virtual Conference will be held on June 8 & 9, 2011. Call for proposals open until February 28, 2011: http://www.himssvirtual.org

IHI: 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium held on November 9-11, 2011. Call for abstracts open until May 23:http://sites.google.com/site/web2011ihi/

SINI: The 2011 SINI Conference Real Meaningful Use: Evolution or Revolution? will be held on July 20-23, 2011. Call for abstracts open until March 7, 2011http://nursing.umaryland.edu/sini