tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28301519310237385932024-02-20T03:24:55.759-07:00NIAA Nursing Informatics Association of Alberta<br><b><em>Focused on providing nursing leadership for the optimal use of information technology to ultimately offer patients the highest level of evidence based care.</em></b>Alberta Nursing Informaticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296440996191154099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830151931023738593.post-48736400092747085222023-10-03T11:23:00.000-06:002023-10-03T11:23:46.784-06:00 Welcome NIAA members <p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b> </p><p> <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07ImazLp43mK213t9RavZXBoLsDNQFle46vj2VlU3TqSHUCcNcmKUA64wXj0m5lnxV4lQQUGszZQqS6tMsRoYg7l56LPooFgkxcczEIddhbRlQwyGuAPNk_IIhx8hdASUZbU-wFmnHcx9bazRtDGYrkduu5RGv_O2Pbk6HJm9RYXql9m1TlVslfuJ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="851" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh07ImazLp43mK213t9RavZXBoLsDNQFle46vj2VlU3TqSHUCcNcmKUA64wXj0m5lnxV4lQQUGszZQqS6tMsRoYg7l56LPooFgkxcczEIddhbRlQwyGuAPNk_IIhx8hdASUZbU-wFmnHcx9bazRtDGYrkduu5RGv_O2Pbk6HJm9RYXql9m1TlVslfuJ=w640-h366" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Nursing Informatics Association of Alberta </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre;">(NIAA) is currently active. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre;">Our members aim to advance </span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre;">the profession and improve healthcare in Alberta through informatics. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">For example, our members include individuals who are:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-d1fa3a08-7fff-1828-91f3-4295b037d7bc" style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 29pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Working in nursing informatics roles within their organizations.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 29pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Working with clinical information systems, nursing workload systems, etc.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 29pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Responsible for managing or leading projects related to health/nursing informatics.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 29pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Eager to collaborate and network with other individuals involved in nursing informatics.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 29pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Teaching nursing informatics and digital health to current and future nurses.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 29pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Interested in developing standards for nursing informatics in Alberta.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-right: 29pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Interested in research, quality improvement, data analytics, and outcome measurement.</span></p></li></ul><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2d8c0ee1-7fff-8a0d-f2bf-82eca78fc25c"><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>How can I get involved?</b></span></p><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 5pt; text-align: left; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Roboto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Please view our </span><a href="https://niaalberta.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">NIAA website</a></span></span><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;"><br /></span></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><b>Membership: </b><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;">Currently, there are </span></span><span style="font-family: Roboto; text-wrap: nowrap;"><b>NO costs </b></span><span style="font-family: Roboto; text-wrap: nowrap;">associated with joining NIAA. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><span style="text-wrap: nowrap;">To join NIAA, please </span><span style="font-weight: 700; text-wrap: nowrap;">complete the </span><a href="http://niaalberta.blogspot.com/p/membership.html" style="font-weight: 700; text-wrap: nowrap;" target="_blank">New Membership form</a><span style="font-weight: 700; text-wrap: nowrap;"> for the 2023-2024 year.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; text-wrap: nowrap;">If prompted to the payment section, please ignore that. </span></span></li></ul><p></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 5pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I<span style="font-size: medium;">f you have any questions, would like to suggest new ideas, or get more involved, you can always contact us at - </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">albertanursinginformatics@gmail.com</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Volunteering members on behalf of the Board (Manal Kleib, </span><span style="font-family: Roboto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tracy Shaben & Elizabeth Darko </span><span style="font-family: Roboto; white-space-collapse: preserve;">).</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div>Alberta Nursing Informaticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296440996191154099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830151931023738593.post-44490982679875400262023-10-03T11:02:00.000-06:002023-10-03T11:02:11.025-06:00<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span>Welcome to the </span>NIAA E<span style="color: #222222; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">xecutive Board Members:</span></span></span></h1><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px; text-align: left;"><li><p role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">President - Tracy Shaben</span></span></p></li><li><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">Vice President – Dr. Manal Kleib</span></span></li><li><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">Treasurer - Cindy Hoekstra</span></span></li><li><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">Secretary & Member Services: Lorilee Lawson</span></span></li><li><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">Public Relations/Website Manager – Ryalin Abraham</span></span></li><li><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">Education Coordinator – Elizabeth Darko</span></span></li><li><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: large;">CNIA Jurisdictional Representative - Dawn Leadbetter</span></span></li></ul>Alberta Nursing Informaticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296440996191154099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830151931023738593.post-70958472789580589072023-08-15T16:47:00.001-06:002023-10-03T11:04:57.927-06:00NIAA Executive Positions: A Call for Nomination (Closed)<b><b></b></b><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Following an extended absence during the pandemic and AHS Connect Care launches, the Nursing Informatics Association of Alberta (NIAA) is currently undertaking a membership drive and other work to better support our members. Our members are striving to advance the profession and improve healthcare in Alberta through informatics. For example, our members include individuals who are: </span><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Working in nursing informatics roles within their organizations. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Working with clinical information systems, nursing workload systems, etc. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Responsible for managing or leading projects related to health/nursing informatics. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Eager to collaborate and network with other individuals involved in nursing informatics. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Teaching nursing informatics and digital health to current and future nurses. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Interested in developing standards for nursing informatics in Alberta.
Interested in research, quality improvement, data analytics, meaningful use and outcome measurement in nursing informatics. </span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Currently, all board positions are vacant. These positions are: </span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">President. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Vice President. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Treasurer. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Secretary & Membership Services. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Public Relations/Website Manager.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Education Coordinator. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">CNIA Jurisdictional Representative. </span></li></ul><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto;">The term for each officer is two years from October 1 to September 30.
Kindly note that you can self-nominate and/or nominate a colleague. Both the Nominees and Nominators must be NIAA members. If not a member, please complete the membership form <a href="http://niaalberta.blogspot.com/p/membership.html" target="_blank">NIAA Membership Form 2023 - 2024 </a></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">We value your participation in this process and encourage you to consider this opportunity. To nominate yourself or a colleague, please complete the <a href="https://forms.gle/uX4YgjJmga3F5evS6" target="_blank">NIAA Board Membership Nomination Form</a> by August 25, 2023. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">The results will be announced on the NIAA Website by September 1, 2023. </span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-504ea86f-7fff-cebd-3996-5ef342d0a67d"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 5pt; margin-top: 5pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">If you have any questions, please contact us at - </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">albertanursinginformatics@gmail.com</span></p><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0563c1; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Thank you, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Volunteering members on behalf of the Board (Manal Kleib & Tracy Shaben, & Elizabeth Darko).</span></div>Alberta Nursing Informaticshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08296440996191154099noreply@blogger.com