Canadian Nursing Informatics Association
The Voice for Nursing Informatics in Canada
About the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association
Mission
To be the voice for Nursing Informatics in Canada. The CNIA is the culmination of efforts to catalyze the emergence of a new national association of nurse informaticians.
Goals
- To provide nursing leadership for the development of Nursing/Health informatics in Canada.
- To establish national networking opportunities for nurse informaticians.
- To facilitate informatics educational opportunities for all nurses in Canada.
- To engage in international nursing informatics initiatives.
- To act as a nursing advisory group in matters of nursing and health informatics.
- To expand awareness of Nursing Informatics to all nurses and the healthcare community.
Who Joins?
The CNIA is for any one interested in nursing informatics!
This may include individuals:
- Interested or working in nursing informatics
- Working with clinical information systems, nursing workload systems, etc
- Responsible for managing or leading projects related to health/nursing informatics
- Interested in networking with other individuals in nursing informatics
- Teaching nursing informatics
- Interested in developing standards for nursing informatics
- Interested in better understanding nursing informatics
Representation on Projects/Organizations
- COACH Strategic Alliance (available in MS Word)
- IMIA-NI Special Interest Group (available in MS Word)
- Canadian Nurses' Association - CNA (Associate Group Status)