Computers Informatics Nursing

From the Editor

Welcome to LWW's electronic journals platform, a new, personalized and intuitive interface that integrates journal content and rich media to enable collaboration, sharing, and innovation among healthcare professionals.  Here are just a few of the features designed to enhance readability, usability, and impact for CIN online journal subscribers:

• New content, such as featured articles, Editor's Picks, "Most Viewed" And "Most Emailed" papers and more.
• New options for article delivery, including an enhanced HTML format for easier reading.
• New ways to customize the site, including saved searches, personal article collections, e-mail and RSS alerts, and more.
• New capabilities, such as exporting references into your favorite citation manager and exporting figures from full-text articles into Power Point.
• Ready access to Publish-Ahead-of-Print papers, society announcements, upcoming topics, and easy-to-find supplementary materials and media.

Click your way through the new website, and experience CIN’s current issue, as well as the journal archives.  In the months ahead, we’ll continue to refine and upgrade the website with additional media and interactive/networking.

All you need to do is register.  Click on the “Register” button located at the top right corner of the website. Then enter your subscriber account number that appears on your journal label above your name. You’ll have full, unrestricted access to all the site’s easy-to-use features. If you’ve already registered, just log in as you always have to begin using all the new features.

Count on CIN to help you master the clinical skills essential for today’s growth-oriented nurse, refine your role as a leader, and keep you on a track for non-stop professional success.

- Leslie H. Nicoll

Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics (WINI) is an award winning continuing education course, presented throughout the US and Canada.  WINI provides an affordable, intensive nursing informatics educational experience and ANCC continuing education contact hours.  WINI focuses on the competencies and standards of nursing informatics practice, the systems of life cycle, theories used in nursing informatics, and professional practice trends and issues.  Visit WINI for detailed information and registration link for the 2010 courses listed.

• July 19-21, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
• October 8-10, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Lebanon, NH

Alliance for Nursing Informatics 

The Alliance for Informatics (ANI) has submitted a statement to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on the Future of Nursing: Acute Care, focusing on the area of Technology. The Institute of Medicine (IOM), in collaboration with the RWJF, has established a major initiative on the Future of Nursing to produce a transformational report. 
Click here to review the statement.

Nursing Informatics History Project documents and preserves the history of nursing informatics

ANI members qualify for a discounted subscription to CIN!

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July 21-24, 2010, Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics, Baltimore, MD.