CNIA Updates Blog

The Canadian Nursing Informatics Association along with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and representatives from Central and South Americas have successfully won their bid to host the NI 2012 eleventh triennial Congress on Nursing Informatics. NI2012 is the official meeting of the IMIA Special Interest Group on Nursing Informatics.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! The 11th International Congress on Nursing Informatics will be in Montreal, Canada, June 23 - 27, 2012.

The Congress provides a forum for nurses and other health care professionals to inform, study, evaluate, innovate, and create a climate within which they can enlarge upon their professional goals.

In order to accomplish this purpose, the objectives are:

* To provide a mechanism for generating and sharing information.
* To examine the impact on nursing of information technology in the areas of clinical practice, education, administration, and research, and health policy.
* To provide an update on trends, developments, and innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) in nursing and health care.
* To determine the priorities for nursing uses of information science.
* To generate future directions in relation to nurses' use of ICT.

SUBMISSIONS: The submission deadline for the NI2012 is August 31, 2011. NI2012 will also be offering a submission mentorship program which will offer the opportunity for those that need assistance in submitting. The deadline for submissions with mentoring is July 31, 2011.

REGISTRATION: On-line registration will open on March 15, 2012

VENUE: Hilton Montreal Bonaventure, 900 de La Gauchetiere West, Montreal, Quebec H5A 1E4 - Phone: +(514) - More Information

WEBSITE: The official website for the NI 2012 Conference is at http://www.ni2012.org/

Read more about the Board at: http://cnia.ca/board.htm

PRESIDENT: Eithne Reichert

PRESIDENT ELECT: Margie Kennedy

PAST PRESIDENT: June Kaminski

TREASURER: Robin Carriere

DIRECTOR OF MEMBERSHIP SERVICES: Mary Eileen MacPhail

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION: June Kaminski

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION: Heidi Chevrier



Alberta: Tracy Shaben
British Columbia: Susan Sepa
Manitoba – Janice Epp
New Brunswick – Kate Burns
Newfoundland – Pat Walsh
Nova Scotia – Nancy McCara
Quebec – François-Régis Fréchette
Ontario – Andrea Partridge
Saskatchewan – Della Stumborg
Yukon – Margaret Timmons




Northwest Territories – apply!
Prince Edward Island - apply!
Nunavut - apply!

You can download our CNIA 2009 Conference Preliminary Program.

Nurse 2.0 - November 22 to 24, 2009 at the Delta Meadowvale Resort and Convention Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.

The download link is:

http://cnia.ca/2009/CNIA_Program09.pdf

FOR ALL CONFERENCE UPDATES GO TO

http://cnia.ca/2009/

Call for Participation in our Concurrent Sessions and Poster Display

Want to Participate?

We have released our Official Call for Submissions Guide. The deadline for submissions for the CNIA 2009 Conference is September 1st. Please send your submissions (or any related questions) to submissions[at]cnia[dot]ca

DOWNLOAD THE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION GUIDE BELOW

The CNIA Conference 2009 Exhibitors and Sponsor Guide is now ready


Download the Guide from: http://cnia.ca/2009/?p=195

The following is a draft outline of the planned Third National CNIA 2009 Nursing Informatics Conference:

The Conference will be held over three days from Sunday November 22nd through Tuesday November 24th, 2009.


DAY ONE – Sunday November 22nd


* PRECONFERENCE EVENT: Late afternoon

* Networking Social: Evening


DAY TWO – Monday November 23rd

MORNING

* Continental Breakfast
* Opening Ceremonies
* Opening Keynote Speaker
* Break
* Concurrent Sessions

LUNCH

AFTERNOON

* Concurrent Sessions
* Break
* Plenary Panel

EARLY EVENING

* Networking Wine and Cheese
* Tradeshow

DAY THREE – Tuesday November 24th


MORNING

* Continental Breakfast & AGM
* Plenary Session
* Break
* Concurrent Sessions

LUNCH AND TRADESHOW

AFTERNOON

* Concurrent Sessions
* Break
* Closing Plenary Session
* Closing Remarks and Raffle (end by 4 pm or earlier)

OFFICIAL CONFERENCE 2009 WEB PAGE at:

http://cnia.ca/2009/?p=54

We want to gather YOUR ideas about important topics for presentation at the 2009 Conference. The theme is Nurse 2.0 - what relevant topic would you be interested in learning more about?

To submit your Idea visit our Conference 2009 Blog at http://cnia.ca/2009/?p=60

We are putting out a call for nominations for some Executive Board Positions.

1. PRESIDENT ELECT - in Janury 2010, our current President Elect, Eithne Reichert will move into the CNIA President position. We are accepting nominations for the President Elect. We currently have 1 candidate interested in the Position. If you are interested, please email our President, or post your interest here.

2. TREASURER - We are also seeking interest for a potential new position - to be Treasurer of the CNIA. Two criteria include that you have experience working with finances in some capacity, and are a resident of Ontario (preferably Toronto).

3. JURISDICTIONAL REPRESENTATIVES

We are seeking a jurisdictional representative for

a) British Columbia
b) Prince Edward Island
c) Yukon
d) Northwest Territories

If you would like to nominate someone or yourself for any of these positions, please indicate your interest here, or email our President, June Kaminski

The CNIA Executive Board is continuing to plan our Third National Nursing Informatics Conference to be held November 22 to 24, 2009 in Toronto, Ontario at the Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre.

The Theme of this Conference will be "Nurse 2.0".

OFFICIAL CONFERENCE 2009 WEB PAGE at:

http://cnia.ca/2009/?p=54

The CNIA Executive Board is continuing to plan our Third National Nursing Informatics Conference to be held November 22 to 24, 2009 in Toronto (Mississauga), Ontario at the Delta Meadowvale Resort and Conference Centre.

The Theme of this Conference will be "Nurse 2.0".

Please start to think about how you can contribute to the Conference. We will of course be looking for paper and poster contributions. If you can not attend the conference in person, but wish to contribute a web-based presentation to include in our final Conference Journal issue, please send it in.

We are also be looking for CNIA members interested in sitting on the Planning and the Program (scholarship review) Committees. If you are interested, contact our President, June Kaminski at june.kaminski[at]cnia[dot]ca

Stay tuned on our Conference updates at:
http://cnia.ca/2009/?p=54