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The findings from the Canadian Nursing Informatics Education (CNIA) Project entitled Educating Tomorrow's Nurses: Where's Nursing Informatics? are now available at the CNIA web site (http://www.cnia.ca/OHIHfinaltoc.htm).

The following major recommendations have been made with lead organizations identified.

1. Recommended that a comprehensive national nursing informatics strategy be developed. LEAD: Office of Nursing Policy, Health Canada, and Canadian Nursing Informatics Association

2. Recommended that specific messages about nursing informatics be developed for specific audiences. LEAD: Canadian Nursing Informatics Association

3. Recommended that national entry-level nursing informatics competencies be established and reflected in the Canadian Registered Nurse Examination. LEAD: Canadian Nurses Association

4. Recommended that nursing curricula include specific nursing informatics outcomes objectives. LEAD: Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing

5. Recommended that addressing educator capacity building and learning opportunities is a priority in a national strategy. LEAD: Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing

6. Recommended that education and clinical use and development of information and communication technology be addressed on both national and jurisdictional bases. LEAD: Academy of Canadian Nurse Executives

7. Recommended that the culture and expectations of schools of nursing embrace nursing informatics and appropriate use of information and communication technology in teaching and learning. LEAD: Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing

8. Recommended that school of nursing infrastructure requirements (human, material and financial) and strategies for addressing them be developed on national, provincial/territorial and local levels. LEAD: Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing

9. Recommended that follow-up to this study be undertaken. LEAD: Canadian Nurses Association (08/25/2003)

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The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing (OJIN) introduces a special section for the "Nursing Classifications" topic. The first article in this series provides an overview of the Home Health Care Classification (HHCC).(10/11/02

We are very pleased to introduce our new executive for the 2002-2004 term. Our new President is Wendi Lee. Our Vice-president is Eithne Reichert and Candace Skrapek has taken on the combined role of Secretary/Treasurer. Other officers are Darlene Froberg who is the Newsletter/Webmaster Chairperson. The role of Public Relations Chairperson is currently vacant. Congratulations and welcome to office. Contact information can be found here. (02/19/2003)