Strategic Plan

The strategies specifically for the IMIA-NI Education Working Group are derived from the IMIA-NI Strategic Plan 2018 - 2021 (shown in italics)

Objectives and Actions

1. Advocacy: To champion the recognition and growth of the nursing informatics and health informatics profession with professional and governmental organizations.

1.1 Strengthen and advance nursing informatics practice and policy:

Through encouraging and supporting members to author and co-author publications.

Membership of decision orientated leadership groups at local, national and international levels.

1.2. Advocate for the integration of informatics into nurse educational programmes:

Link to competencies and learning outcomes for nursing informatics education.

Link to sharable resources for education.

Identify the changing role of nurses and consider how to provide the informatics component in the education of nurses for the future.

Identify educational options to encourage and support nurses information literacy.

2. Collaboration: To promote the cross-fertilisation of health informatics knowledge and skills across academic, professional and geographical boundaries, while serving as the catalyst for ubiquitous worldwide health information infrastructures for patient care and health research.

2.1 Drive collaboration between nursing informatics groups; with interdisciplinary health informatics communities; with ICN and national nursing organizations:

Identify people and other organizations particularly in the education domain with which links could be established.

2.2 Establish and share best practice:

Through updating and maintaining the Education Working Group's web site.

3. Membership: To strengthen opportunities for participation in the Association by all members, across all membership categories.

3.1 Engage and connect people at country level:

Encourage wide membership including those new to nursing informatics and/or from developing countries.

3.2 Increase number of members and their activities in IMIA NI:

Work with the Excutive to advance opportunities for engagement in nursing informatics from an educational perspective.

3.3 Engage and mentor members:

Consider how to encourage and support consumer education and information literacy.

4. Academic and Professional Excellence: Bring academics, researchers and leaders together to exchange knowledge and evidence to prepare the next generation of nursing and health informatics researchers and professionals.

4.1 Generate and disseminate expert knowledge across countries, organizations and Working Groups:

Promote the visibility of the IMIA-NI Education Working Group by planning for a panel or workshop presentation at or before the Nursing Informatics congresses.

4.2 Recognise academic and professional excellence:

Support the student paper and poster awards at IMIA NI conference events (Main and Lite).

Identify, upload and maintain leadership vignettes and useful links on the Working Group's site.