Nursing I.T. Award Nominations

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Nursing I.T. Award Nominations Sought

Health Data Management is accepting nominations for its fourth annual

Nursing Information Technology Innovation Award. The deadline for

entries is Jan. 5, 2009.

The award recognizes innovation and excellence in using information

technology in the field of nursing to directly improve the quality of care/patient safety and/or promote the effective use of nursing

resources. The co-sponsor of the award is CARING, the nation's largest

educational and networking group for nurses interested in health care

information technology.

The award will be presented to a team of nursing professionals at a

health care organization (hospital, physician group practice or any

other care-giving site). At least one of the primary coordinators of the

I.T. project must be a nurse. The project must be ongoing.

To qualify for this award, a health care organization must submit an

essay with detailed information on the nursing information technology

project and the specific, measurable results of that project. The

contribution of nurses to the innovative project must be clearly identified.

Judges, who will include nurses, will interview finalists by phone

before determining the award recipient. The winner will be notified by

January 31. The April issue of the magazine will include a story on the

winning organization and runners-up.

To enter, submit a document attached to an e-mail to

howard.anderson@sourcemedia .com.

At the top of the document, list the following:

* Name of organization and address

* Description of size of organization (total physicians, total inpatient

licensed beds, etc.)

* Name of key nurse(s) involved in the project, and their roles.

* Name of person who prepared the nomination and contact information

(phone and e-mail)

* Name of senior executive with organization who could be available to

answer questions, and contact information.

Entrants should prepare an essay of up to 1,000 words answering the

following three questions:

1. What is the nursing I.T. project that is worthy of recognition?

Precisely identify the technology involved.

2. What is innovative/groundbreaking about the project?

3. What are the measurable results/outcomes of the project? Be as

specific and detailed as possible.

Examples of results can include: achieving tangible improvements in the

quality of care; reducing the time nurses spend on non-care activities

by automating tasks; and improving workload management through

telehealth technologies and other systems.

In addition, the essay should describe the contribution of nurse(s) to

the project and whether the nurse(s) was the project leader, product

manager, trainer, implementer or executive sponsor.

Questions about the award should be e-mailed to

[email protected]

. More information about CARING is available at http://www.caringonline.org