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Careers in Nursing Informatics

Become a Nurse Informatics Specialist. Good information about this specialty. Includes links to schools in different states. (When choosing a school for informatics, remember the information in Box 18-3, page 323, "Questions Specific to an Informatics Program.")
http://www.allnursingschools.com/faqs/informatics.php

Hot Jobs, Emerging Careers. Describes some nursing informatics roles.
http://www.minoritynurse.com/other-nursing-topics/hot-jobs-emerging-careers

Excellent, detailed information about nursing informatics programs. An Excel spreadsheet maintained by Dr. Brad Hemminger at the University of North Carolina. If considering a program, check it out here.
http://ils.unc.edu/informatics_programs/

Links to academic programs in nursing informatics. Some are online.
https://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/ni/resources/academic.asp

Links to medical informatics programs.
http://www.amia.org/history/training.html

2011 HIMSS Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey. The HIMSS 2011 Nursing Informatics Workforce Survey builds on research that HIMSS released in 2004 and in 2007. Survey continues to suggest that nurse informaticists play critical role in the implementation of various clinical applications including clinical/nursing documentation and clinical information systems, computerized practitioner order entry (CPOE) and electronic medical/health records. Excellent information! (Added February 24, 2011)
http://www.himss.org/content/files/2011HIMSSNursingInformaticsWorkforceSurvey.pdf

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Change Theories

Kaminski, June. (2011). Theory applied to informatics – Lewin’s Change Theory. Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics (6)1. (Added March 30, 2011)
http://cjni.net/journal/?p=1210

Informatics Organizations

ANI (Alliance for Nursing Informatics). This organization is composed of members of many different nursing informatics groups. Go to their page to find a local group.
http://www.allianceni.org/

American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA).CARING (Capital Area Round Table in Nursing Informatics).
http://www.ania-caring.org/mc/page.do;jsessionid=99EE4D6F919EE58C36EECB73A83DF8B0.mc0?sitePageId=101757

AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association)
http://www.amia.org/

HIMSS (Health Information Management Systems Society) page on nursing informatics.
http://himss.org/ASP/topics_nursingInformatics.asp

IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association.
http://www.imia.org/

Nursing Informatics Working Group of AMIA
https://www.amia.org/ni-wg

Informatics Theories

Understanding and Performance. An excellent description of the data, information, knowledge, wisdom theory behind informatics.
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/performance/understanding.html

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Medical Informatics

Hersh, William (2009, May 15). A stimulus to define informatics and health information technology. BioMed Central. Excellent definition of informatics.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6947/9/24

What Is Medical Informatics - Some Formal Definitions of the Field from IMIA.
http://www.amia.org/inside/faq/whatis.asp

 

Nursing Informatics Overview

25 Resources on Nursing Informatics. Just as the title promises, 25 different resources pertinent to nursing informatics organized by news and information, schools and programs, and forums and journals. (Added December 7, 2010)
http://www.licensedpracticalnurse.org/nursing-informatics

Roles in Nursing Informatics

NIWGs page with descriptions of roles in nursing informatics including super user.
https://www.amia.org/ni-wg/ni-wg-roles

Job descriptions for many, many roles in nursing informatics.
http://www.informaticsnurse.com/forums/archive/index.php/f-35.html

Report from the NeHC Stakeholder Forum regarding both Research and Informatics and the Nurses Role in Informatics. Much good information about the role of nursing informatics from nursing leaders starting on page 49. (Added October 24,2009)
http://www.nationalehealth.org/uploadedFiles/Home/Events/Board_of_Directors_Meetings/October_21,_2009/10-21%20public%20PACKET.pdf

Usability in Informatics

HIMSS EHR Usability Task Force (2009, June). "Defining and Testing EMR Usability: Principles and Proposed Methods of EMR Usability Evaluation and Rating." Provides agood description of usability, and methods of evaluating both during planning, and after. Must reading for those considering a new system, or an upgrade. Also discusses the differences between usability and user satisfaction as well as efficiency and effectiveness. (Added September 22, 2011)
http://www.himss.org/content/files/himss_definingandtestingemrusability.pdf.

Ambler, S. (2000). User Interface Design: Tips and Techniques. This 16 page introduces the economics of a good user interface. Details 20 items that should be considered in design. Discusses prototyping and interface flow diagrams. The summary presents bulleted points for general guidelines, screen design, and prototyping. These principles never change.
http://www.fiit.stuba.sk/~bielik/courses/psi-slov/material/ui-design.pdf

Head, A. J. (2003). Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites. This article describes how to create a persona, or composite person, to use when designing Web sites. This same approach could be used in designing user interfaces in information systems.
http://www.infotoday.com/online/jul03/head.shtml

Human Computer Interaction. This site features a full online book devoted to the teaching of this issue by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. Chapter 2, Human Computer Interaction is especially valuable to anyone interested in this phenomenon. Includes a detailed description, a brief history, and the nature of human-computer interaction.
http://sigchi.org/cdg/

Kushniruk, A. W., Patel , V. L., & Cimino, J. J. (1998). Usability testing in medical informatics: Cognitive approaches to evaluation of information systems and user interfaces. An excellent pdf article that describes how to evaluate systems for cognitive usability.
http://www.dbmi.columbia.edu/cimino/Publications/1997%20-%20SCAMC%20-%20Usability%20Testing%20in%20Medical%20Informatics%20-%20Cognitive%20Approaches%20to%20Evaluation%20of%20Information%20Systems%20and%
20User%20Interfaces.pdf

Usability Testing. Wikipedia page on this - some really good information here including goals, what it is, and what it is not. (Added December 13, 2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usability_testing

Nielsen, Jakob, Ten Usability Heuristics. Ten general rules of thumb for usability in computer interfaces. http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html

Usability Net. A site that has links to all kinds of information about usability including international standards, tools, surveys and many more. A great site for information.
http://www.usabilitynet.org/home.htm

User Interface Analysis (1999). This is a series of detailed papers that present ideas for what to explore when designing a user interface. As contrasted with the Head article above, this site recommends using real people. Although written for a business audience, the items listed can easily be changed to meet healthcare needs. It should be helpful in creating systems that do not impede work flow.
http://www.uidesign.net/1999/papers/UIA1.html

A fun video comparing teaching users computers and moving a scroll using monk to a book. With English subtitles. Good for a few laughs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

 

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Websites Referred to in Text of Chapter

http://www.imia.org/

http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/ibmi/efmi/

http://www.allianceni.org/

http://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/ni/education.asp

 

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References in this Chapter that are Online

Alliance for Nursing Informatics. (n.d.). About ANI.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.allianceni.org/about.asp

American Health Information Management Association. (2007). AHIMA History.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.ahima.org/about/history.asp

American Nurses Credentialing Center. (2007, September 25). Informatics Nurse Certification.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.nursecredentialing.org/cert/eligibility/informatics.html

AMIA Nursing Informatics Working Group. (2007, July 12). Categories of Nursing Informatics Programs.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.amia.org/mbrcenter/wg/ni/education.as

Anderson, D. (2001, November 8). Diffusion of Innovation.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://riccistreet.net/port80/charthouse/present/diffusion.htm

Audain, C. (1998). Florence Nightingale.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.agnesscott.edu/Lriddle/WOMEN/nitegale.htm

Chin, T. (2004, February 17). Doctors pull plug on paperless system.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2003/02/17/bil20217.htm

Clark, D. (2000, January 22). Kurt Lewin.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/history/lewin.html

Clark, D. (2004, May 2). Understanding.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/performance/understanding.html

Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. (2007). About HIMSS.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.himss.org/asp/aboutHimssHome.asp

International Medical Informatics Association. (2004). IMIA history. Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.imia.org/history.html

International Medical Informatics Association. (2007). IMIA’s goals and objectives include.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.imia.org/

Jones, P. (2000). An Introduction to Chaos.   Retrieved February 12, 2008, from http://www.p-jones.demon.co.uk/nonliner.htm

Kling, R. (1999). What is Social Informatics and Why Does it Matter? [Electronic version at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january99/kling/01kling.html]]. D-Lib Magazine(5), 1.

Provost, W. J. (n.d.). General Systems Theory.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.n4bz.org/gst/gst1.htm

Rae, G. (n.d.). Chaos Theory: A brief introduction.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.imho.com/grae/chaos/chaos.html

Schein, E. H. (2004). Kurt Lewin's change theory in the field and in the  classroom: Notes toward a model of managed learning.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.a2zpsychology.com/articles/kurt_lewin's_change_theory.htm

Tallberg, M. (1994, January 9). History of EFMI wg5  1988 to 1994.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.nicecomputing.ch/nieurope/EFMI_aims_history.htm

Thagard, P. (2004, Summer). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2004 Edition).  Summer 2004. Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2004/entries/cognitive-science/

Versel, N. (2004, September 9). Cedars-Sinai learns from its CPOE mistakes to improve workflow. Health IT World News   Retrieved September 13, 2004, from http://tmlr.net/jump/?c=10115&a=296&m=2654&p=1086588&t=164

Wade, M., & Schneberger, S. (2005, October 13). Socio-Technical Theory.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.istheory.yorku.ca/sociotechnicaltheory.htm

Walonick, D. S. General Systems Theory.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.survey-software-solutions.com/walonick/systems-theory.htm

Walonick, D. S. General Systems Theory.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://www.survey-software-solutions.com/walonick/systems-theory.htm

Wikipedia. (2007, September 24). Information Theory.   Retrieved March 25, 2008, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

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