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Elevate Your Nursing Informatics Expertise at the 2025 Doswell Health Informatics Conference

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Mar 3, 2025 | Artificial Intelligence, Conferences, Contact Hours, Continuing Education, Nursing Education, Nursing Informatics, Nursing Informatics Education, Nursing Innovation, Technology | 0 Comments

Are you ready to dive into the future of healthcare technology and its impact on nursing practice? Mark your calendars for the 2025 Doswell Health Informatics Conference, hosted by the...

CNFL HIMSS Nursing Informatics Bootcamp with Dr. Susan Newbold

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Jul 3, 2023 | Contact Hours, Continuing Education, Nursing Informatics, Nursing Informatics Bootcamp, Nursing Informatics Certification Exam, Nursing Informatics Education, Technology | 0 Comments

The Central & North Florida HIMSS chapter is sponsoring a Nursing Informatics Bootcamp with Dr. Susan Newbold on October 6th & 7th, 2023, in Orlando, FL: Date and time: October 6 ·...

Webinar:Navigating the Path to Success in Nursing Informatics

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Jun 19, 2023 | Nursing Informatics, Nursing Informatics Webinar | 0 Comments

If you're new to nursing informatics or considering a career in nursing informatics, Cait (Michicich) Obenauf, MBA, Clinical Informatics Program Manager at HIMSS, posted the following...

A Fireside Chat with Kathleen McGrow, CNIO Microsoft

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Jun 12, 2023 | Artificial Intelligence, Nursing, Nursing Informatics, Nursing Innovation, Technology | 0 Comments

The American Nursing Informatics Association's (ANIA) Southeast Education Committee will be hosting a fireside chat webinar on Jun 15, 2023 04:00 PM CDT with Kathleen McGrow, DNP,...

Solve nurse understaffing with a data-driven, care-centric approach.

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Jun 8, 2023 | Conferences, Demystifying Understaffing, Florence Nightingale, Nurse Staffing and Scheduling, Nurse Understaffing, Nursing, Nursing FTE Budgets, Nursing Informatics, Nursing Informatics Theory, Nursing Innovation, Nursing Shortage, Understaffing | 0 Comments

Welcome to the content for my poster presentation from the Texas Nurses Association's 2023 Annual Conference. Title: A data-driven, care-centric approach to nurse staffing. Background:...

Navigating the Future of Healthcare: Virtual Nursing in the Digital Age

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Jun 7, 2023 | Nursing, Nursing Informatics, Nursing Innovation, Technology, Virtual Nursing | 0 Comments

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, June 13th, 2023, as the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community delves into the exciting realm of virtual nursing and its transformative impact on healthcare...

How to Improve Your Nurse Staffing in 5 Minutes

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Apr 28, 2023 | Demystifying Understaffing, Nurse Staffing and Scheduling, Nursing, Nursing Education, Nursing FTE Budgets, Nursing Informatics, Nursing Shortage, Understaffing | 0 Comments

Nurse staffing continues to be a hot topic in healthcare today. Academic reports and news stories continue to report the nursing shortage, significant numbers of nurses leaving or...

Global Nursing Needs Underestimated for Decades Due to Budget Flaw

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Apr 10, 2023 | Demystifying Understaffing, Nurse Staffing and Scheduling, Nursing, Nursing FTE Budgets, Nursing Informatics, Nursing Innovation, Nursing Shortage, Understaffing | 0 Comments

In my previous blog post titled “Flawed Nursing Budget Process Increases Understaffing Risk,” I shed light on the issue of a flawed non-productive FTE budget calculation and its impact on...

Nurse-to-Patient Ratios: An Incomplete Solution to Nurse Understaffing

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Mar 15, 2023 | Demystifying Understaffing, Nurse Staffing and Scheduling, Nursing, Nursing Education, Nursing Informatics, Nursing Innovation, Nursing Shortage, Public Policy, Technology, Understaffing | 0 Comments

Implementing nurse-to-patient ratios has recently gained renewed interest due to concerns about nurse understaffing, burnout, patient safety, and quality of care. Research has shown that...

Patient-Centric Language for Nursing Budgets

by Robert Wingo, BSN, RN-BC | Feb 22, 2023 | Nurse Staffing and Scheduling, Nursing, Nursing FTE Budgets, Nursing History, Nursing Innovation, Nursing Shortage, Nursing Theory, Understaffing | 0 Comments

Nursing FTE budgets are crucial in managing nursing resources in healthcare organizations. The concept of the FTE, or full-time equivalent, is used to determine the number of nursing hours...

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