Publications by authors named "Susan K Newbold"

The advancement of Nursing Informatics (NI) in practice differs between regions and there is a need to support the advancement of NI all over the world. Exemplifying means that have been successful in supporting NI in practice could be used to guide the development of NI in other places as well. To address this need, the IMIA-NI SIG Student and Emerging Professionals (SEP) group proposes a panel of pioneers in the field to discuss means of how to support NI in practice throughout the continuum - from places where the field is just emerging to those where NI today is more advanced.

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The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) established the Nursing Informatics History Project to recognize the pioneers of nursing informatics. Fundamental to the pioneers was dissemination of knowledge. The purpose of this review was to identify pioneers who have embraced social media as of 2016.

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This chapter focuses on informatics and information management continuing education for all practicing nurses, as well as certification for informatics nurse specialists.

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The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) established the Nursing Informatics History Project to recognize the pioneers of nursing informatics. Fundamental to the pioneers was dissemination of knowledge. The purpose of this review was to identify contributions to the field of nursing informatics as peer-reviewed manuscripts for the years 2010-2015 and indexed in PubMed.

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Promotion and support of electronic health records and electronic information exchange through governmental policy development requires a framework that considers cost, benefits, barriers, risks and policies at the statewide level that might accelerate or retard adoption. Recommendations to underpin governmental policy involve financial incentives, technology adoption, legal and regulatory considerations and consumer education.

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Nurses are key leaders and team members for the implementation of clinical documentation systems. This paper reviews key success factors during implementation of clinical documentation systems to overcome traditional barriers, ensure commitment to universal goals and facilitate the use of technology for patient safety and continuous quality improvement efforts. Top level management support, particularly from nursing executives, is vital.

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Health care organizations are increasingly using computer systems to support nursing care documentation; however, processes used to deploy such systems are widely varied. The purpose of this survey was to understand current practices related to implementation of computerized nursing and interdisciplinary documentation systems with the goal to establish best practice guidelines. In Spring 2007, members from the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society Nursing Informatics Working Group interviewed a sample of 15 hospitals to solicit information regarding the following processes: leadership activities, clinical transformation processes, project management activities, implementation processes, evaluation metrics, terminology and other standards used, and methods used to facilitate end-user adoption.

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Maryland, as other states in the United States, has experienced a nursing shortage. It is thought that the use of technology could help alleviate this shortage. A volunteer group has worked for over four years to identify technology solutions to ease the shortage of nurses.

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This article describes the process utilized to create research questions which promote technology as an infrastructure to enable safe nursing practice. Beginning with scenarios of safety problems related to nursing practice, the team identified information technology including hardware, software, and organizational and operational components to help improve the safety aspects addressed in the scenarios. Further discussed are characteristics of technology necessary at each step in the nursing process and finally recommendations are presented for various research questions that would be needed to enable research on the use of the proposed technologies.

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Clinicians stay connected with tools that offer real-time data, including personal digital assistants, patient care robots, network voice communication badges, and telehealth. Using this technology, clinicians will soon be able to access the patient's entire electronic health record at the point of care. Although the hardware and the software are evolving, many solutions are currently available.

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