Hello All,

Please join us in our next quarterly educational webinar "Exploring Opportunities from Entry Level to CNIO". This webinar includes a contact hour. Please see the flyer below for more information.

Registration can be completed by clicking the link below:

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This conference is being jointly sponsored by the Greater Delaware Valley (GDV) and DelMarVa chapters of ANIA.

Registration: GDV-ANIA/DelMarVa-ANIA 2023 Fall Conference (wufoo.com)

Unlocking Informatics Careers - Exploring Opportunities from Entry Level to CNIO!  SAVE THE DATE! 

Date: 10/5/2023 

Time: 5PM to 6PM

Our Panelists!

Arlicia Jones, BSN, RN

• Clinical Informatics Associate
• Broward Health
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Katrina Blissett, MSN, RN, CPN

• Clinical Informatics Application Coordinator
• Jackson Health Systems
• Miami, Florida

Denise de los Reyes, BSN, RN

• Director of Innovations and Implementation
• Independent Living Systems
• Miami, Florida

Kristy Baker, MSN, RN-BC

• Executive Director of Clinical Informatics & Analytic
• Broward Health
• Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Marc Perkins-Carillo, MSN, RN-BC, NE-BC, HACP

• Chief Nursing Informatics Officer
• Moffitt Cancer Center
• Tampa, Florida

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!

Hello all ANIA Tristate chapter members, 

 As we say goodbye to the summer and welcome in the Fall,  we are asking your help to fight hunger on Long Island while supporting your ANIA chapter.

 

This Saturday, 9/9/23, Long Island Cares is holding a food drive at local Stop & Shop across Long Island.

 

To volunteer for this, please click the link below.  Please send us photos from the event of you and or any fellow ANIA members or family so we can showcase our local communities.  

https://www.licares.org/events/volunteer-opportunities-stop-and-shop/

 

 A few statistics

• Approximately 221,000 people on Long Island suffer from food insecurity– including 65,000 children
• 39% of food insecure people in Nassau County are not eligible for nutrition assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
• 40% of food-insecure people in Suffolk County are not eligible for nutrition assistance programs.

Resource: Feeding America

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing your photos. 

 

Kind Regards,

Michele Burk

ANIA TriState President Elect

Calling all South Florida clinical nurse educators!

Jackson Health System's Nurse Education Summit

Topic: Integrating Technology into Clinical Practice

Guest Speaker: Amy M. Rosa, DNP, MSMI, RN

Consultant, Nursing Informatics

Amy  M. Rosa is a high-performing, experienced chief nursing information officer with expertise in building and optimizing infrastructure, organization processes, and measurement systems to maximize business results in healthcare service and health information technology operations.  With 27 years of experience as a registered nurse, Amy has consistently operated in healthcare leadership positions, where she has been able to make a difference in the quality of care and safety of the patient while bringing measurable success to the organization she serves. 

RSVP is required by Monday, August 28 to andrea.socorrosardi@jhsmiami.org

• Eligible participants will receive continuing education credits for attending. 
• Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be provided. Surface lot parking is free of charge. 
• Refrain from using the parking garage onsite, as it is not part of Jackson property. 

Date: 8/31/2023

Time: 5PM to 8PM

Where: Jackson North Medical Center

Second Floor Auditorium

160 N.W. 170st Street, North Miami Beach, FL 33169

GREAT NEWS!  If you live or work in Western New York, the Great Lakes Chapter now includes the Western New York region! 

Have you been looking to get more involved with ANIA?  One of the best ways to do that is to join a local chapter.  The Board of the Great Lakes Chapter is excited to announce that Western New York is now part of the Chapter Area!  We invite all members who live and/or work in WNY to join our chapter.  This includes zip codes starting with “14xxx”.  Contact the chapter to join!

Zoom Link: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/j/92312262001?pwd=OUo0NlZGRm92WVVxeVA2dTU2NmpmQT09

Zoom Link: https://vanderbilt.zoom.us/j/92312262001?pwd=OUo0NlZGRm92WVVxeVA2dTU2NmpmQT09

We would love to hear from the community on your accomplishments as well as hard lessons learned in failure or challenges still being addressed!   This year’s call for abstracts looks at the nurse informatics role throughout the healthcare experience. We are most interested in topics related to the following: 

• Virtual Models of Care
• Artificial Intelligence
• Novice to Expert Nurse Informatics Mentoring Programs
• Utilization of Data to improve Health Outcomes
• Social Determinants of Health
• Expert tips on Abstract Writing, Presenting and Publication

ANIA NY Tri-State Call For Abstracts

This year’s call for abstracts looks at the nurse informatics role throughout the healthcare experience. We are most interested in topics related to the following: 

• Virtual Models of Care
• Artificial Intelligence
• Novice to Expert Nurse Informatics Mentoring Programs
• Utilization of Data to improve Health Outcomes
• Social Determinants of Health
• Expert tips on Abstract Writing, Presenting and Publication

ANIA NY Tri-State Call For Abstracts

Distinguished Chapter Celebration is tomorrow!

Place: Big City Tavern

Time:  5PM to 7PM

Location: Fort Lauderdale

***Bring donations for school supplies!***

The Future of Nursing Informatics and AI...Possibilities"

Speaker: Susan R. Stafford DNP, MBA, MPA, RN-BC, NEA-BC 

This year’s call for abstracts looks at the nurse informatics role throughout the healthcare experience. We are most interested in topics related to the following: 

• Virtual Models of Care
• Artificial Intelligence
• Novice to Expert Nurse Informatics Mentoring Programs
• Utilization of Data to improve Health Outcomes
• Social Determinants of Health
• Expert tips on Abstract Writing, Presenting and Publication

ANIA NY Tri-State Call For Abstracts

Hello everyone! The 2023 Southeast Educational Committee Webinar recordings are now available! The South FL chapter created a spot to store the recordings, and have been gracious enough to share it with all of us.

Available now is our Q1 webinar, Optimizing Your Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn, and our Q2 webinar, Fireside Chat with Microsoft CNIO Kathleen McGrow.

We will be adding the CEU form as they are approved.

If you are interested in joining the Southeast Region Educational Committee, please email me at patricia@patriciabath.com.

Thanks,

Patti Bath

The ANIA NY Tri-State Chapter is looking for your opinions on how you use social media to stay in touch with the world around you.

We would like to utilize platforms that will help us create opportunities for meaningful member engagement.

Please take a few moments to fill out this survey to better guide us in posting Nursing Informatics content we think would be educational and interesting.

Follow the link or scan the QR code below to participate.  The survey ends Friday, August 11, 2023

Social Media Survey Jotform Link

Save the Date for our Distinguished Chapter Celebration on 8/4/2023!

Place: Big City Tavern

Time:  5PM to 7PM

Location: Fort Lauderdale

More to come!......

Join us for a fun and rewarding Saturday October 21st from 9-12 as we go for round 3 of supporting a phenomenal organization – MedShare, which is dedicated to collecting excess medical supplies and distributing them in the United States and around the world to medical organizations in need.  Sign up on the MedShare Volunteer page via the link below.  You can sign up as a volunteer then look for the opportunities on 10/21.  The MedShare site is located at 3240 Clifton Springs Road, Decatur, GA 30034.

Save the Date for Chapter Meeting on 7/20/2023 starting at noon!

Meeting invite coming soon!

Join us for our annual local chapters symposium and receive 6 CEs specific to nursing informatics. Education topics include ethics in AI, telehealth nursing, and other innovating titles.

$50 Early bird price
$60 After August 22nd

Unable to attend live? No problem, you will have access to the webinar and CEs for 30 days post-conference. 

Hello—

Thanks so much to those who have already completed the Member Feedback Survey-2023.  If you provided contact information, we will be reaching out to you in the coming weeks.

There is still time to participate for those who have not had an opportunity to complete the survey.  It will close on 6/30/23 at 11:59 pm.  You can access the survey here:  https://forms.office.com/r/W8Y1uCYckP

We look forward to hearing your feedback.

Thanks in advance,

Tajuane Dockery, DNP, RN-BC

Submissions for abstracts are still ongoing. QR code and links to submit are below for those interested.

Please remember to take the survey for our event planning event for our celebration for the "Distinguished Chapter Award". 

This is a Sponsored Event. 

Click on the below link:

2023 Annual ANIA NY Tri-State Fall Symposium - Call for Abstracts!

Abstracts are being accepted for speaker and poster presentations for the 2023 ANIA NY Tri-State Fall Symposium scheduled for October 12, 2023. This is an excellent opportunity to share your work and knowledge with your peers! The submission deadline for abstracts (speaker and poster) are due July 31st, 2023.  Links and QR code are below to submit your abstract.

Come join us for a Fireside Chat with the CNIO of Microsoft - Kathleen McGrow, DNP, MS, RN on 6/15/2023 at 5PM to 6PM!

In this fireside chat, we learn how a nurse informaticist grew her career to become a CNIO. We will learn the day in the life of a CNIO. Nurses will be able to understand the role of a Chief Nursing Information Officer outside of the health system.  The Learners will be able to identify the influences of emerging technology on nurse informaticists.  

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The NY Tri-State Chapter of ANIA had a number of our chapter members attend the 2023 National Conference.  Some members presented at the event and others were moderators.  The chapter was once again honored and was designated a distinguished chapter for the 4th year in a row.
It is always exciting to meet with our peers, especially in person, and share ideas and knowledge.  Looking forward to the 2024 conference in Chicago and striving to have an increased number of our chapter members as presenters.
The attached collage are some photos of our chapter members at the conference.  Hope to see you there next year!

On May 4, 2023, the NY Tri-State Chapter of ANIA collaborated with HIMSS (NYS Nursing) and SONSEIL to present the symposium "Demystifying and Embracing Artificial Intelligence in Health Care".  The event was offered in-person and virtual.  Attached you will find a collage with the highlights of the event.  We thank all our sponsors who

I am excited to share with you we have secured the CNIO of Microsoft as a speaker for our next quarterly webinar for 2023, see below for details!

Dr. Kathleen McGrow is chief nursing information officer for the Microsoft health and life science industry team. She most recently has published two articles about artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence: Essentials for Nursing and Transforming Clinical Data into Wisdom and Artificial Intelligence Implications for Nurse Leaders. Dr. McGrow will share with us her perspective on key aspects of nursing informatics today.

Click Here to Register

The ANIA Distinguished Chapter designation was created to recognize those chapters that have demonstrated commitment to the advancement of the specialty of Nursing Informatics. The distinguished chapter committee determined that the Great Lakes chapter demonstrated excellence within the key areas of education, scholarship, volunteerism, national involvement, and member engagement within calendar year 2022.  CONGRATULATIONS!

The April 15, 2023, the educational event has been rescheduled to due technical difficulties. The new date is April 29, 2023. We apologize for any inconvenience, and we hope you’re able to join us! 

 

Virtual and In- Person Registration is still open for those who haven’t reserved their spot at our Spring Symposium. Use the QR code to access information about our amazing panelists and guests speakers.

ANIA South Florida Meeting 4/27/2023 12PM to 1PM - Save the Date!

Meeting invite coming soon!

Click here to see the SAVE THE DATE flyer

Mark your calendar now for the joint collaboration between the Greater Delaware Valley and DelMarVa ANIA Chapters!

The Caring Side of Technology:  Keeping the Connections Safe and Secure.

32nd Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics:

Capturing the Value of Informatics Across the Health Care Continuum

July 20 - 21, 2023

SINI 2023 will be held virtually.

Track A: The Value of Informatics and the Informatician

Track B: Innovations Across the Continuum of Care 

Sini "U": Preparing Educators to Navigate Clinicians into Cyber Health Care

Mar 16, 17:00 - 18:00 (ET)

Southeast Regional Education Committee Presents... Optimizing Your Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn for Healthcare Professionals

Date/Time:   Thursday, March 16 , 2023 5:00 pm 6:00 pm

This complementary webinar grants 1 NCPD* The presentation will review key action verbs to optimize resumes, identifying skills that translate to healthcare careers outside the bedside, understanding the importance of a cover letter and how to write one effectively, the key components of LinkedIn and how to use them to your advantage, and examples of nontraditional healthcare jobs. Presented by:  Patti Bath, MBA, MSN, RN- BC Founder and President, Nurse Career Consulting * This activity has been submitted to Georgia Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. Georgia Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

It is with great pleasure that I announce that the South Florida Chapter of ANIA is OFFICIALLY a Distinguished Chapter.  A huge congratulations to ALL of you!  This is not possible without the participation and support of all our Chapter members.  Let’s celebrate this awesome accomplishment!!!

From the National ANIA office:

Dear South Florida chapter, On behalf of the ANIA Board of Directors, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate you on being selected as a 2022 Distinguished ANIA Chapter. The ANIA Distinguished Chapter designation was created to recognize those chapters that have demonstrated commitment to the advancement of the specialty of Nursing Informatics. After reviewing your application, the distinguished chapter committee determined that your chapter demonstrated excellence within the key areas of education, scholarship, volunteerism, national involvement, and member engagement within calendar year 2022.

Please join us as we support a phenomenal organization – MedShare, an organization dedicated to collecting excess medical supplies and distributing them in the United States and around the world to medical organizations in need.

GA Chapter ANIA will support them by volunteering to help them do their work four times over the course of the year.  With just a few hours per session, we help them carry on their vital mission – please come join us!

To learn more about this four star organization (as rated by Charity Navigator), view their website (https://www.medshare.org/)

The dates and times for our group this year are:

·         Sat 4/15 9a-12 noon

·         Sat 7/15 9a-12 noon

·         Sat 9/21 9a-12 noon

To sign up to volunteers, you will first need to register with them, and then you can pick the data on which you want to volunteer.  Sign up on the volunteer page.

Please join us for our first quarterly webiner of 2023 titled "Optimizing Your Resume, Cover Letter, and LinkedIn for Healthcare Professsionals" presented by Patti bath, MBA, MSN, RN-BC, Founder and President, Nurse Career Consulting. Registration can be completed by clicking the link below.

Click Here to Register

Apply for a Conference Registration Scholarship!

ania.org

Save the date:  6/16 at 5:00 pm.

The SE Education Committee is proud to present a Fireside Chat with Kathleen McGrow who will talk about her career and her thoughts on the industry.

Signup information to come...

ANIA South Florida Business Meeting

Chapter Meeting - RSVP

ANIA South Florida Business Meeting Date: 2/9/2023 Time: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Agenda:  Will be sent prior to meeting Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer, mobile app or room device Click here to join meeting! Meeting ID: 273 710 489 24 Passcode: itZkxY Or call in (audio only) +1 786-628-2741,,545083013# United States, Miami Phone Conference ID: 545 083 013#

Contact Information

REMINDER! Please RSVP for our Chapter Meeting on 2/9/2023 at 12NOON!

ANIA South Florida Business Meeting
When:  Feb 9, 2023 from 12PM to 1PM  

The next open Board of Directors meeting that all chapter members may attend is scheduled for April 20th at 7pm.  The meeting will take place via zoom as usual.  Calender invite will zoom details will be sent out closer to the event.  Hope to see you all there.

Jenny Horn, DNP, MHA, RN-BC currently works remotely as the Senior Director Clinical Applications and Informatics for Keck Medicine of University of Southern California (USC) where she created an informatics team and program that she leads for the medical enterprise that consists of four hospitals and more than 80 outpatient clinics.

 Prior to joining Keck Medicine of USC, Jenny was the CNIO at Children’s Mercy Hospital where she led a clinical applications and informatics team. She also spent nearly 20 years at Cerner in various positions that included a nurse executive role where she provided strategic guidance to help organizations accomplish clinical and business objectives.

 Jenny has many years of nursing experience including hands-on patient care in cardiovascular intensive care and telemetry units, and managed care within an ambulatory surgery center within the Kansas City community.

 As a lifelong learner with an eagerness to help others, Jenny has held adjunct professor roles at Western Missouri State University and University of Kansas Medical Center.

ANIA South Florida Quarterly Meeting Dates!

- February 16, 2023
- April 9, 2023
- July 6, 2023
- November 9, 2023

Invite will be sent prior to meeting date!

Please join us as Dr Ellie Hunt provides an encore presentation of "National Trends in Informatics Competencies" for the ANIA-DelMarVa chapter on 1-16-2023 at 7:30pm EST.

Microsoft Teams meeting

January 16, 2023 7:30pm EST

Join on your computer or mobile app

Click here to join the meeting

Or call in (audio only)

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We are honored to have this opportunity.

Eleanor (Ellie) Hunt, DNP, RN-BC, CNE, CPHIMS, ACHIP™ is an informatics subject matter expert, nurse educator, and consultant in informatics. Dr. Hunt is the program chair for the MSN Nursing Informatics program at Western Governors University (WGU).

Dr. Hunt earned a BSN from the University of Pennsylvania, a MSN with concentrations in Health Systems Leadership & Outcomes and Nursing Informatics from Duke University, and a DNP from East Carolina University. Ellie is certified in nursing informatics (ANCC), a certified nurse educator (NLN), a HIMSS certified professional in health information and management systems (CPHIMS), and most recently became an AMIA AHIC diplomate with the ACHIP™ certification in 2022. 

Scholarly interests include user experience, implementation including change management and project management, data visualization, application of learning theories, and effective teaching strategies.

Hello New York Tri-State ANIA Chapter Members,

We want to hear about you and include it in our ANIA Distinguished Chapter Application for the New York Tri-State Chapter.  Our submission is due before January 31, 2023.   As part of the eligibility process, we need to submit documentation about our chapter members' involvement in the advancement of Nursing Informatics.

We are specifically looking for information in the following and will include the presentations submitted for inclusion on our application on a first-come-first-served basis.

• ANIA National Presentations or Participation

• • Indicate the issue, title, and authors
• Non-ANIA Conference for Informatics Related Topics (i.e. presented at HIMSS, ANA, etc.)

• • Indicate the issue, title, and authors
• National Involvement

• • Indicate your name, the name of the committee, and your role

Please forward the information to nytristatechapter@gmail.com and put Distinguished Chapter Application as the subject line.  We are only allocated a certain number of points for each category.  However, we are planning a 2022 year-end summary and any submissions received will be included in that summary.  This summary will be sent under separate cover and will be posted on our chapter website to showcase the hard work and dedication of our members to our own chapter members and the National membership.

Kindly send us your submissions by Tuesday, January 10, 2023.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send an e-mail.

Sincerely,

ANIA New York Tri-State Chapter Board of Directors

Join us Friday, January 27, 2023 at 8:30am
4.5 Nursing CEUs
$40 members/$50 non-members

1/2/2023
Call for nominations for the following SCeNIC Board of Director positions:
President
President Elect
Secretary
Treasurer
Nominations end January 16,2023

ANIA NY Tri-State Chapter Call for Nominations
This notice serves as the official call for nominations for the following positions:
President Elect (NY Tri-State Board Position) 1 year term
Treasurer (NY Tri-State Board Position) 2 year term
Secretary (NY Tri-State Board Position) 2 year term
Educational Coordinator Chair (NY Tri-State Board Position) 2 year term
Educational Coordinator Co-Chair (NY Tri-State Board Position) 2 year term *new position
Social Media Coordinators (2 positions) (NY Tri-State Board Position) 2 year term *new position
Technology Coordinator (NY Tri-State Board Position) 2 year term *new position
Any chapter member who is a full member (not student or honorary) of ANIA may be a candidate.
With the exception of President Elect, the term of office for all board positions is two years.
Information on these positions are attached.
The term of office begins January 1, 2023. The NY Tri-State ANIA Board oversees the control and
administers the affairs of the chapter to support the mission of advancing nursing informatics
through education, research, and practice in all roles and settings.
Application Process
To be considered for this position, please email nytristatechapter@gmail.com with your name,
current position, informatics experience, and why you are interested in this position (please use
“Call for Nominations” in your subject line).
Email must be received by December 3rd, 2022 to be considered for the ballot.
After receiving nominations from the membership, the chapter board will prepare a slate of
candidates, prepare a ballot, and email chapter members to begin voting. The candidate receiving
the highest number of votes will be declared the winner. In case of a tie, the winner will be decided
by lot by the chapter board.
Note: If after a call for nominations is made to all chapter members there is only one candidate for
an office (uncontested), this candidate may then be declared the winner.
Important Dates Call for Nominations
● 11/18/22 Call for Nominations emailed to chapter members
● 12/03/22 Nomination period closes (emails due)
● 12/05/22 Voting begins
● 12/13/22 Voting ends
Candidates will be notified before December 15, 2022.
If you have questions, email nytristatechapter@gmail.com (please use "Nominating Question"
in your subject line).
Thank you!
Linda DiCarlo MS, BSN, RN-BC
NY Tri-State ANIA Chapter President

I. Education and Networking Events - host 4 events over the next year, 2 networking (preferably in-person) and 2 educational.

• What is a good winter venue (Feb/March)?
• Susan to explore hosting a Hack-A-Thom

II.  Maintain and/or Increase Chapter Membership
III.  Fill All Vacant Positions - President Elect, Secretary

REMINDER Webinar is tonight at 6PM!
Remember to access at 6PM tonight!

Board Positions are open for new term starting this this spring!  Application linked attached with explanation of roles in the application.  Please reach out to us or any board member if you have any questions!

Deadline to submit will be Tuesday, February 28th.  Election window to be 2 weeks in March and announcing new members at April Chapter Meeting!

Send completed nomination/application forms to sandiegoania@gmail.com and mcbinder@gmail.com  - Thank you!

Thank you once again for being willing to assist those in need in our community. 

Hello All,
Please join us in our next quarterly educational webinar "National Trends in Informatics Competencies and Nursing Education" presented by Ellie Hunt, DNP, RN-BC, ACHIP ™, CPHIMS , CNE (she/her/hers), Program Chair, MSN Nursing Informatics, College of Health Professions, Western governors University.  This webinar includes a contact hour when you attend live. Please see the flyer below for more information. Thanks!

Registration can be completed by clicking the link below:

Click Here to Register

Orlando has been a staunch supporter of the group as a board member, and it is no surprise that he is up for the challenge of running the organization!  Orlando will be learning the ropes from Mark before he assumes the position of President at the end of next year.  Thank you Orlando for all you have done and all you will do for the group!

Come for Happy Hour somewhere at the Shoppes at Pembroke Gardens!
Date: 11/2/2022
Time: 6PM to 8PM
Location: Brass Tap

It's happy hour somewhere! Come join us for happy hour and socialize with your peers!
Please RSVP on the Events Page

ANIA - South Florida Chapter Meeting (Rescheduled Date)
Date:  10/5/2022
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Come join us for our ANIA - South Florida Chapter Meeting via Teams!

Find out what's going on with our chapter and what goals we want to accomplish!