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Topics covered will include nursing history, nursing theory, nursing informatics theory, certification exam topics, relevant current events, data analysis, data visualization, nursing innovations, and more.
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Recent Blog Posts

Nurse Understaffing and the Fallacy of Nursing Budgets
Recent reports and studies have continued to raise the alarm about the escalating nurse understaffing crisis, its impact on the mental health and well-being of nurses, and the adverse effects understaffing is having on patient care and patient outcomes.{{Trusted...

GDV-ANIA Fall Conference Registration Open
Registration for the Greater Delaware Valley chapter of the American Nursing Informatics Association's virtual fall conference has opened. About the GDV-ANIA Chapter From the GDV-ANIA community website: Chapter Mission Support and enhance the role of the Informatics...

Save the Date: ANIA 2023 Annual Conference – May 10-12 – Louisville, KY
Save the Date and Call for Abstracts for the ANIA 2023 Annual Conference The American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) has announced their "Save the Date" and "Call for Abstracts" for the ANIA 2023 Annual Conference to be held from May 10 - 12, 2023 in...

AMIA 2022 Annual Symposium Registration Now Open
AMIA 2022 Annual Conference Registration Now Open Registration is now open for the AMIA 2022 Annual Conference being held November 5-9, 2022 in Washington DC at the Washington Hilton hotel. From the conference website: The Annual Symposium builds on more than 45 years...

Nurse Keith Podcast: Nursing, Staffing, Informatics, & Hospital Budgets
Last month, I had the pleasure of being a guest on the Nurse Keith Show where I talked with Keith Carlson about nursing, nursing informatics, the nurse staffing crisis, and my discovery of a 30-year-old flawed nursing budget process that increases the risk of nurse...

Understaffing Due To Doubling Down on Nursing Budget Errors
After publishing my articles Flawed Nursing Budget Process Increases Understaffing Risk and A Care-Centric Approach to Nurse Scheduling, a nurse manager contacted me regarding an odd discovery they had made about their nursing FTE budget process. Their facility not...

Happy Nursing Informatics Day 2022!
Nursing Informatics is at the Heart of Nursing To celebrate Florence Nightingale's birthday and Nursing Informatics Day, I thought it would be nice to share some of her history and the inception of nursing informatics and some information about an exciting new book...

Health Information Data Visualization Design Webinar
The Midwest Chapter of the American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) is hosting a webinar on Health Information Data Visualization Design on May 18, 2022, from 11:00 am Central to 12:00 pm Central (noon Eastern to 1 pm Eastern). From the registration page:...