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