The latest smartphone out there is the Palm Pre. While it's not out on the market yet, if you'd like to try out this technology and talk about it, you get a free six-month subscription and a Pre.
Check out this offer on the official Palm blog.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
New product from Unbound Medicine
The Handbook of Nursing Diagnosis by Lynda Juall Carpenito-Moyet, RN, MSN,CRNP was a very popular tool for me in nursing school. This little book has lots of nursing diagnosis information in it and is now available in electronic format.
Get it from Unbound for your Palm, iPhone, Blackberry or Windows Mobile enabled device at www.unboundmedicine.com
Get it from Unbound for your Palm, iPhone, Blackberry or Windows Mobile enabled device at www.unboundmedicine.com
Thursday, April 23, 2009
More on Twitter
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
How to Safely Blend Personal and Professional from www.cio.com
How to Search Twitter Smarter also from www.cio.com
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
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