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:welcome: In less than three weeks I will be atttending the NIA Nurse Leaders in Informatics workshops and conference preceding MedInfo 2007, the international Medical Informatics symposium held every four years. I have been asked at late notice to fill in for a facilitator who has withdrawn. So I get it right for the international audience can some of you please give me ideas on what a nurse practitioner would want from, do with and need to know about nursing informatics when working in the field? All comments appreciated.
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Mr ENTJ speaking. Yes you. I also took the Myer Briggs challenge on many occasions during my career and it was farily good, but the definitions got shaky around the edges. I recently tested using the "True Colours" methodology for determining my response to above and below the line thinking (management Vs. Leadership) and came out a strong Green/Gold with a patch of Orange and almost no Blue. Not surprising that I am a nurse informatician then. Most nurses in the clinical setting tested Orange/Blue or Vice Versa (the caring side coming through), and it really showed why my reliance on fact and statistics hadn't permeated the complex. Nurses usually seem to know through feeling a situation rather than analysing it and their intuition hardly ever fails. Try the colour test. Its far more revealing then Myer Briggs. As a Greenie I'd like to collate the results.
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I use the definition from the ANA when I try to explain what it is I do for Nursing informatics in Australia. It can be found in the ANA Scope and Standards of Nursing Informatics Practice 2001 document on page vii. The definition is succinct and easy to understand and relate to practice. Hope this helps. :)
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In addition to the above, there is another sensible criterion to look for if you work the clinical area. Ensure the soles are non-synthetic and have a high rubber content. In the event of contact with live products you won't then close the circuit and become a statistic. Body protected circuits made this requirement less important, but not all areas have them. :uhoh21: