Nurse Evolution Blog
50% of Your Time Worth Spending: Feeding the Healthcare Data Ecosystem
If you are practicing in a healthcare environment that requires you to use electronic charting, you know that while it is a modern marvel for documentation, it can also be considered a horrible hindrance to the nurse experience. According to the literature, nurses...
Wishes & Promises: Squashing the Hype Monster
We’ve created a technological monster. With all the talk about the uses for novel technologies in healthcare today, such as artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, the Internet of Things (IoT), genomics and Blockchain, and how they revolutionize...
Design Thinking: It Isn’t Just for Technology
I often get asked about my writing process – what inspires me and what my strategies are when putting fingers to keyboard. For me, writing is the ultimate creative process. My approach is the use of innovative techniques such as Design Thinking to make engaging,...
Hit the Road! A Guide for Nursing Innovation
A blueprint for Nursing Innovation? I’m super-stoked about this resource. I missed it in its original release. Thankfully, it was republished recently on social media so that I can share it with you now! An easily accessible, actionable, and much-needed guide about...
Long Gone: The EHR Data of Yesterday
With increased understanding about the use of data in healthcare – its vastness and value – we are beginning to grasp what it can do when extracted efficiently from electronic, automated, smart, systems can do: create better outcomes, and improve the way we practice....
A Blind Spot in Nursing: Innovative Technologies
In the last year, I’ve had the pleasure of helping Master of Science in Nursing students learn about the constructs of nursing informatics. In their assignments, the students were asked to provide examples of current and cutting-edge health technologies and their...
Nurse Innovation: Nurture
The concept of Nurse Innovation: Nature has been established. Nurses are naturally clever, resourceful, resilient and use alternative methods to deliver timely, quality, evidence-based care for patients instinctively whenever necessary. Nurses need encouragement to...
Nurse Innovation: Nature
Every nursing shift is different and unpredictable. On most days, you are crazy busy. No matter what setting you work in, your usually organized workflows become disrupted for several reasons. A lack of resources such as missing or broken equipment. Distractions and a...
The Evolution of Nursing Care Starts with You
Today, you were on the floor, clinic or in a virtual care environment. The patient in front of you presented with an acute illness, one you may have seen before, or one that is different and perplexing. Instinctively, you used the nursing process, and your organized...
Why Evolve?
As an RN for 21 years, 12 years of those as a nurse informaticist, I’ve worked with health information technology and data in informatics and quality improvement departments and vendor and startup settings. Through lessons learned, trial and error, and changing roles,...