Blogging NI2006. The 9th International Congress on Nursing Informatics. Seoul, Korea June 2006

Kathleen Smith and Carol J. Bickfordled this workshop and started by getting everyone to introduce themselves & saying what they wanted to get out of it.

They described there experience and purposes in setting up the Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics moving from clinical topics to informatics and education. They tried to use the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How approach and applied these to nursing informatics programmes. They described who attends WINI’s and the identification of learner needs. Issues raised included the context, resources and the content which needs to be included - although it was very, very US centric some of the issues could be transferred to other settings, including the levels on NI competancy.

They got delegates into groups to look at case studies which brought out lots of experiences and ideas for the future, and triggered further questions. Kathleen and Carolprovided references and concluded with some questions and discussion.

There was some interesting ideas about running events - but it did come across as a sales pitch for WINI.

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For my final session of the day I attended was a workshop on information and litigation, which included presentations by Paula Pocter, Richard Hayward & various colleagues. Richard started by setting the importance and issues surrounding the collection and storage of patient records.

They then broke the limited number of delegates (less than 10) into 2 small groups to look at genuine case studies of deaths following medical errors. It was interesting that delegates from outside from the UK were extremely surprised that medical and surgical patients wre mixed on the same ward.

Various communication and care management issues were highlighted and the differences between paper and computerised records, along with examples from various practice domains of the sorts of problems identified in the case studies - not surprisingly with the audience the use of computerised tols was seen as one of the ways forward.

After the group work activites these were fed back to the “wider” audience issues which had been discussed including langauage, workload, communication, protocols and audit trails.

Paula concluded the session by tring to summarise some of the issues and highlight some keys issues abd raising questions about what is information? and how do we cope with it? how do we value and manage the information? suggseting that we reach chaos. She suggested that we need to value (rather than just document) information.

She raised her usual questions about what is unique about nursing - agreeing with an audience member that the key to nursing is the coordination role or being there. Paula then proceeded to explore her famliar 4 cog model of information processing.

The session concluded with several valid comments from the audience.

She thanks the delegates & her team - including me for making up the “numbers”!
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