On the leading edge of national, international initiatives

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Center for Nursing Informatics faculty are at the leading edge of nurses’ involvement in several national and international initiatives. We look forward to the 11th annual Nursing Knowledge: Big Data Science (NKBDS) conference June 7-9, 2023, focused on The Value of Nursing. This conference brings together experts and participants who will challenge each other’s thinking about the value of nursing and the ways informatics can foster improvements in nursing practice, research, education and leadership. Learn more at z.umn.edu/bigdata.

Contributing to the center's history as an International Classification Nursing Practice (ICNP) of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Research and Development Center (z.umn.edu/icnp), Robin Austin, PhD, DNP, DC, RN-BC, FAMIA, FNAP, and Dorcas Kunkel, DNP, RN, PHN, CNE, CPHIMS, CDIP, will serve as the co-directors of this effort and recently joined the ICNP’s Editorial Board. Kunkel will be presenting at the ICN and attending the ICNP Consortium meeting this July in Montreal, Canada.

Martin Michalowski will conduct a workshop this summer leading efforts on artificial intelligence (AI), 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Nursing (AINurse23). AINurse23 is co-located with the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME2023), in Portoroz, Slovenia, on June 15, 2023. The workshop will focus on AI in nursing and provide a platform for discussions about the recent advances, cutting edge AI methods, and chart a path forward for nursing AI. More details are available at the workshop’s website https://sites.google.com/view/ainurse23/home/

The center would like to welcome new informatics faculty, Clinical Assistant Professor Dorcas Kunkel, Clinical Assistant Professor Elizabeth Meyers, PhD, RN, CPHIMS and Assistant Professor Christie Martin, PhD, MPH, RN -BC, LHIT-HP, PHN.

If you would like more information about these initiatives please contact center faculty at quis0026@umn.edu.