Lo and behold, I get a great bunch of links from my listservs. Here are a few of the gems noted below.
How to Safely Blend Personal and Professional from www.cio.com
How to Search Twitter Smarter also from www.cio.com
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Tweet, twitter...what?
If you're overcome by anxiety because you don't know what those two words mean, they refer to one of the most talked about internet tools right now...Twitter. There's even a really great YouTube video on how Twitter works called "Twitter in Plain English".
Many folks with blogs, such as yours truly, also maintain Twitter feeds, which allow posts of 140 characters or less. Distilling posts down to 140 characters can be tricky, though. Since I don't own an iPhone and since I don't always have wifi access for my Palm, I'm currently staying out of the Twitter realm for this blog. Frankly, my day-to-day life may be exciting, but some of my stuff I can't tell you. It's five letters and starts with an H----...and it's not HORSE, but rather HIPAA.
The good folks at Clinical Cases and Images, though, are right in the fray. Here are a few of their thoughts on what's going on with medical blogging and Twitter.
Many folks with blogs, such as yours truly, also maintain Twitter feeds, which allow posts of 140 characters or less. Distilling posts down to 140 characters can be tricky, though. Since I don't own an iPhone and since I don't always have wifi access for my Palm, I'm currently staying out of the Twitter realm for this blog. Frankly, my day-to-day life may be exciting, but some of my stuff I can't tell you. It's five letters and starts with an H----...and it's not HORSE, but rather HIPAA.
The good folks at Clinical Cases and Images, though, are right in the fray. Here are a few of their thoughts on what's going on with medical blogging and Twitter.
Monday, April 13, 2009
In the news
Joint health record for DoD and the VA:
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/obama-announces-new-joint-health-record-dod-va
An interesting article about the demand for clinicians with informatics experience:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/jobs/12starts.html
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/obama-announces-new-joint-health-record-dod-va
An interesting article about the demand for clinicians with informatics experience:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/jobs/12starts.html
Friday, March 27, 2009
News items of note
Yes, I'm still here but busy working and prepping for every kind of test you can imagine.
Here are a few news items I've culled of interest in IT. Note: not all of them pertain directly to your life on the floor as an RN, but they tell the background story of the world of IT right now.
Think they can't outsource health care? Think again. Infosys, one of the largest IT outsourcing shops in the world is looking at taking on the US health care market (from the WSJ Health Blog.)
President Obama discusses the importance of IT in health care yet again.
Emerging Technologies in Nurse Education is a seminar sponsored by Reed Elsevier, primarily for nursing educators. It brings up some very interesting topics, particularly use of simulator tools for nursing students.
GeekDoctor brings up another hot IT topic: Green IT. Green IT discusses ways of saving energy in the use of IT equipment by powering down servers and workstations when they are not in use. This can be better said than done in a 24/7/365 health care environment, and GeekDoctor highlights some interesting solutions.
One RN describes a weekend without technology on her unit in this article. End of Shift: Nurses get Back to Basics. (from http://www.nurse.com/)
And finally, in the cool toys section, http://www.medgadget.com/ discusses the latest and greatest pulse oximeter. I'd really love to have one of these on the floor!
Here are a few news items I've culled of interest in IT. Note: not all of them pertain directly to your life on the floor as an RN, but they tell the background story of the world of IT right now.
Think they can't outsource health care? Think again. Infosys, one of the largest IT outsourcing shops in the world is looking at taking on the US health care market (from the WSJ Health Blog.)
President Obama discusses the importance of IT in health care yet again.
Emerging Technologies in Nurse Education is a seminar sponsored by Reed Elsevier, primarily for nursing educators. It brings up some very interesting topics, particularly use of simulator tools for nursing students.
GeekDoctor brings up another hot IT topic: Green IT. Green IT discusses ways of saving energy in the use of IT equipment by powering down servers and workstations when they are not in use. This can be better said than done in a 24/7/365 health care environment, and GeekDoctor highlights some interesting solutions.
One RN describes a weekend without technology on her unit in this article. End of Shift: Nurses get Back to Basics. (from http://www.nurse.com/)
And finally, in the cool toys section, http://www.medgadget.com/ discusses the latest and greatest pulse oximeter. I'd really love to have one of these on the floor!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Education
Right now, I'm contemplating several online master's degree programs, particularly an informatics degree. It can be a chore, since there are lots and lots of programs out there right now, called health care informatics, nursing informatics and medical informatics.
If you're a nurse and want to be board certified in informatics by the ANCC, you need the following:
If you're a nurse and want to be board certified in informatics by the ANCC, you need the following:
- Hold a current, active RN license within a state or territory of the United States or the professional, legally recognized equivalent in another country
- Have practiced the equivalent of two years full time as a registered nurse
- Hold a baccalaureate or higher degree in nursing or a baccalaureate degree in a relevant field
- Have completed 30 hours of continuing education in informatics within the last three years and meet one of the following practice requirements:
- Have a practiced minimum of 2,000 hours in informatics nursing within the last three years
- Have practiced a minimum of 1,000 hours in informatics nursing in the last three years and completed a minimum of 12 semester hours of academic credit in informatics courses which are a part of a graduate level informatics nursing program
- Have completed a graduate program in nursing informatics containing a minimum of 200 hours of faculty supervised practicum in informatics
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Just what is The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act?
The technical terms are here on the House of Representatives site. GeekDoctor has his own post on this legislation at his blog.
If you're really into EHR (electronic health record) and exactly what it is and what's out there, don't miss The Ultimate Guide to Taking Control of your Health Records.
And in the etc. category, Nursing Central recently updated Taber's on it's Palm platform. This nurse is thoroughly enjoying it, even if I don't have wifi access on my device at work.
If you're really into EHR (electronic health record) and exactly what it is and what's out there, don't miss The Ultimate Guide to Taking Control of your Health Records.
And in the etc. category, Nursing Central recently updated Taber's on it's Palm platform. This nurse is thoroughly enjoying it, even if I don't have wifi access on my device at work.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Change of Shift is up...
And yours truly is listed for the first time!
If you've never been to Change of Shift, head on over to www.emergiblog.com for the whole story. Change of Shift is predominantly nurse bloggers blogging about nursing or nursing-related topics. It's a must read for any nurse. Check it out!
If you've never been to Change of Shift, head on over to www.emergiblog.com for the whole story. Change of Shift is predominantly nurse bloggers blogging about nursing or nursing-related topics. It's a must read for any nurse. Check it out!
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