Emerging professional's view of the landscape: Nursing informatics curriculum, competencies, and career opportunities

Adrienne Lewis, Lorraine Block, Laura Peltonen, Lisiane Pruinelli, Maxim Topaz, Erika Lozada Perezmitre

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Abstract

The curriculum associated with nursing informatics (NI) education is not standardized, therefore the perspectives of new and emerging nurse informaticians is important. How these curricula differences affect career opportunities of new nursing informaticians, and in turn influenced current career choices will be explored. Synthesizing opinions with themes extracted from a 2014 international study-Advancing nursing informatics in the next decade: Recommendations from an international survey will be summarized.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationNursing Informatics 2018 - ICT to Improve Quality and Safety at the Point of Care
EditorsAnn Kristin Rotegard, Angelica G. Davalos Alcazar, Diane J. Skiba, Sayonara Barbosa
PublisherIOS Press
Pages60-61
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781614998716
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event14th International Congress on Nursing and Allied Health Informatics, NI 2018 - Guadalajara, Mexico
Duration: Jun 6 2018Jun 8 2018

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume250
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Other

Other14th International Congress on Nursing and Allied Health Informatics, NI 2018
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityGuadalajara
Period6/6/186/8/18

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
University of Haifa, Israel. He is passionate about using data science and artificial intelligence to improve human health. His particular focus is on clinical decision support, standardized health terminologies, and data and text mining. In the past, Dr. Topaz was involved with health policy (national and international levels), leadership (e.g. Chair of the Students Working Group with International Medical Informatics Association) and health entrepreneurship. Dr. Topaz also has clinical experience in internal and urgent medicine. He received his Masters and Baccalaureate degrees from the University of Haifa, PhD from the University of Philadelphia. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women's Hospital.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and IOS Press.

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