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Manitoba Nursing Informatics Provincial Group - (MNIA)
The Manitoba Nursing Informatics Association (MNIA) is the nurses’ voice for health informatics in Manitoba.
ABOUT THE MNIA
The College of Registered Nurses of Manitoba (CRNM) has acknowledged the MNIA as a special interest group of the CRNM. The importance of nursing informatics reaches throughout and beyond Manitoba.
Goals
The goals of the MNIA are:
- To provide an avenue for networking to nurses within Manitoba interested in nursing informatics
- To facilitate educational opportunities for all nurses in Manitoba
- To provide leadership in Manitoba within matters of nursing and health informatics
- To facilitate information management and nursing informatics research within Manitoba and Canada.
Status
Nationally the Canadian Nurses Association has granted associate group status to the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association (CNIA) and the MNIA is an affiliate member of the CNIA. Together we are working to create a strong provincial and national voice for nurses in health informatics.
The CNIA and MNIA are also affiliated with COACH, Canada’s National Health Informatics Association and through this strategic alliance CNIA provides the Canadian nursing link to the IMIA-NIG, the International Medical Informatics Association and its Nursing Informatics Group.
The MNIA is for any one interested in nursing informatics! This may include individuals who are:
- Interested in a better understanding nursing informatics
- Interested or working in nursing informatics
- Working with clinical information systems, nursing workload systems
- 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
CNIA Representative
Janice Epp