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 · 8 am – October 7 · 4:30 pm EDT

Location: 528 West Livingston Street, Orlando, FL 32801

Cost: $625 – $775 (Earlybird registration discount available through September 8, 2023)

This is a two-day on-site event.

Dinner will be provided at a local restaurant for all participants in the program on Friday, October 6th. More details to come!

Day 1: October 6, 2023

7:30 am Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM EST to 4:30 PM EST (Lunch included)

Day 2: October 7, 2023

7:30 am Sign-in/Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM EST to 4:30 PM EST (Lunch included)

Presented by: Susan K. Newbold, Ph.D. RN-BC FAAN FHIMSS, FAMIA

Course Description:

This intensive two-day course focuses on current informatics trends and issues. It includes content for Registered Nurses who are interested in becoming American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) board-certified Informatics Nurses. Other clinical professionals working in informatics may wish to take the course to become exposed to the course topics.

Participants will earn 14 contact hours of continuing education credits for attending this event. Please note that you must attend at least 50% of the course times and submit the evaluation to receive 7 contact hours. The Planning committee and speaker for this activity have no financial disclosures to provide.

Axxess Consult Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.

This program is approved for up to 14.5 continuing education (CE) hours for use in fulfilling the continuing education requirements of the Certified Professional in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CPHIMS) and the Certified Associate in Healthcare Information & Management Systems (CAHIMS).

Course Objectives:

1. Discuss the scope and standards of nursing informatics practice
2. Describe professional practice, trends, and issues within the informatics nurse role
3. Explore management and leadership issues affecting informatics in healthcare settings
4. Identify key concepts in informatics, information technology, information management, knowledge generation, and data security.
5. Consider human factors in relation to information technology systems
6. Describe models and theories associated with informatics.
7. Delineate steps of the system life cycle as it applies to information technology in the health setting

Day 1 Agenda (October 6, 2023; 7:30 AM EST – 4:30 PM EST)

7:30 AM- 8 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome, Introductions, Set Objectives

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Foundation of Practice: Professional Practice, Interprofessional Collaboration

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break

10:15 AM – 11:30 AM Professional Practice (Continued)

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM System Design Life Cycle: Planning & Analysis, Designing & Building, Implementing & Testing, Evaluating, Maintaining, & Supporting

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch Break (provided)

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM System Design Life Cycle (continued)

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM Break

2:45 PM – 3:30 PM System Design Life Cycle (Continued)

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Introduction to Case Studies & Group Work

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Dinner – Provided by HIMSS Central & North Florida Chapter – Location TBD

Day 2 Agenda (October 7, 2023; 8:00 AM EST – 4:30 PM EST)

7:30 AM- 8 AM Sign In and Continental Breakfast

8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Foundations of Practice (continued): Methodologies and Theories, Rules, Regulations, and Requirements

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM Break

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM Foundations of Practice (Continued)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Data Management and Health Care Technology: Data Standards, Data Management, Data Transformation, Hardware, Software, and Peripherals.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch Break (provided)

1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Data Management & Health Care Technology (Continued)

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Presentation of Case Studies by Participants and Discussion

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM Break

3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Presentation of Case Studies by Participants and Discussion

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Certification Exam Preparation, Final Questions, Course Evaluation, Raffle, Adjourn

Presenter Bio:

Susan K. Newbold, Ph.D., RN-BC, FAAN, FHIMSS, FAMIA, NIBootCamp@comcast.net, is the Course Director and Consultant in Healthcare Informatics, Franklin, TN. She is uniquely qualified to teach this course as she has experience in the vendor, consulting, academic, and hospital worlds. Dr. Newbold is ANCC Board Certified in Nursing Informatics and initiated the first review course in nursing informatics in 1995. She organized the first hospital-based conference in Nursing Informatics in the US. In 2001 she won the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing International Technology Award for Knowledge Advancement for this course. Dr. Newbold is the Recipient of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing 2019 Virginia K. Saba Nursing Informatics Leadership Award.

Dr. Newbold earned her Ph.D. and MS in Nursing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She is a Founder of CARING (now ANIA). She is on the Board of the Tennessee Chapter of HIMSS. Susan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, HIMSS, and AMIA. Identified as a pioneer in nursing informatics, Susan co-edited five books and has written numerous articles on informatics topics. Susan was a keynote speaker at the first nursing informatics conferences held in Taiwan and Singapore and has consulted in informatics in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Qatar, Singapore, Slovenia, and Taiwan. Susan was selected in the 2013 Class for “Women to Watch” by the Nashville Medical News and is the HIMSS 2015 Chapter Leader of the Year awarded in 2016.