Online Journal of Nursing Informatics http://ojni.org
Senior Editors Meet the Rest of Our Editorial Team!
We are excited that six well known nursing informatics experts have agreed to serve as Senior Editors for OJNI. Each editor will contribute regular columns to our OJNI issues, beginning in October 2010 on a specific topic (see each Senior Editors' bio below for more information on their particular topic area).
Nancy Staggers, PhD, RN, FAAN Nancy is responsible for our "Crucial Conversations about Optimal Design" Column with Darlene!
Dr. Nancy Staggers has an extensive background in clinical informatics, from determining user requirements to application prototyping, system selection, large systems implementation, and enterprise system evaluation. She has held executive positions, including Associate CIO, Information Technology Services for the Health Sciences Center at the University of Utah, Program Director for ECIS, Catholic Healthcare West, and Director for Corporate Informatics in Department of Defense. While in the DOD, she developed a clinical information system program, now installed in sites worldwide. Subsequently, she led a multidisciplinary team in developing the vision and user requirements for the military's computer-based patient record. Dr. Staggers began at the College of Nursing in 1998. She teaches systems implementation, project management and human-computer interaction in the Informatics programs. She does informatics consulting for large health systems.
Dr. Staggers' area of research is human-computer interaction and interface design in healthcare applications. She has completed a number of studies relatd to the optimal design of applications for nurses; mostly recently her work is on nursing handoffs.
Dr. Staggers will be sharing our new "Crucial Conversations about Optimal Design" Column with Darlene Hammel-Jones (see below) in upcoming Journal issues, beginning with Volume 14, Issue 3 - October 2010.
Scott Erdley, DNS, RN Scott is responsible for our "Future Thoughts Now" Column!
I have been a Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, and affiliated with the Patient Simulation Center, used by the Nurse Anesthesia and Acute Care NP Programs, since 2000. I received my Doctorate of Nursing Science from the School of Nursing, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. I am also an alumnus of the School of Nursing having earned my B.S.N. and M.S. in 1989 and 1993, respectively. Recently I participated as a fellow in the Medical Informatics (MBL/NLM) Course held at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (Spring 2002).
My interests and activities, with healthcare informatics, are currently in the areas of nursing information, information seeking, the use of high-fidelity simulation in education and health care informatics, and portable/personal digital devices. I manage several listservs including the Nrsing-l, the first list dedicated to nursing informatics. I have taught classes about health care informatics as well as the intersection of technology and care in acute care environments to undergraduate and graduate students.
Dr. Erdley will be writing our new "Future Thoughts Now" Column in upcoming Journal issues, beginning with Volume 14, Issue 3 - October 2010.
Peter J. Murray, PhD, RN, FBCS CITP Peter is responsible for our "Different seas, same boats?" Column!
Dr. Murray is a self-employed Health Informatics/Telematics Consultant. He has
taught in the MSc in Health Informatics at The University of Winchester, UK and Walter Sisulu University, Mthatha, South Africa and served as Module Leader for a Research Methods module.He is currently the CEO for the International Medical Informatics Association until 2015. He is also Adjunct faculty at University of Maryland, Baltimore, and a Founding Fellow and Director at CHIRAD. Dr Murray is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association and ANIA-CARING.
Dr. Murray will be writing our new "Different seas, same boats?" Column in upcoming Journal issues, beginning with Volume 14, Issue 3 - October 2010.
Kathryn H. Bowles PhD, RN, FAAN Kathryn is responsible for our "Achieving Meaningful Use in Research with Information Technology " Column!
Dr. Bowles holds a BSN from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, an MSN from Villanova, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her position at the Penn School of Nursing, she is the Beatrice Renfield Visiting Scholar for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, a Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute, a faculty member in the Ackoff Center for Advancement of Systems Approaches, and Director of the Health Informatics Minor. Dr. Bowles leads a program of research in the use of information technology to improve healthcare for elders and support healthcare provider's decision-making regarding hospital discharge referrals for elders.
Dr. Bowles' program of research examines decision making supported by information technology to improve care for older adults. Her ongoing study, funded by the National Institute of Nursing Research, focuses on decision-making and the development of decision support for hospital discharge referral decisions. Other research areas include telehealth technology, quality of life among frail elders, intervention research to close the health care racial divide, and the use of large databases in home care to support clinical decision-making.
NOTE FROM DR. MCGONIGLE, November 2011:
"The appointment to a term chair is a high honor in the University and is an acknowledgement of a high level of productivity of a faculty member. It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Kathryn H. Bowles, PhD, RN, FAAN as the Ralston House Endowed Term Chair in Gerontological Nursing."
Dr. Bowles will be writing our new "Achieving Meaningful Use in Research with Information Technology" Column in upcoming Journal issues, beginning with Volume 14, Issue 3 - October 2010.
Judith A. Effken, PhD, RN, FACMI, FAAN Judith is responsible for our "Issues, Impacts and Insights" Column!
Dr. Effken is a Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Arizona. She earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Hartford. her Masters of Science in Nursing Management and PhD in Psychology from the University of Connecticut. She was awarded the Ada Sue Hinshaw Research Award for Significant Work in Improving Healthcare in 2008 and was elected to be a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing and in the American College of Medical Informatics in 2005.
Dr. Effken's research interests focus around Design and evaluation of clinical information displays, Human-computer interaction, the Impact of organizational and unit characteristics on staff and patient outcomes, and E-learning. She has worked on DyNADS: A Dynamic Network Analysis Decision Support Tool for Nurse Managers.
Dr. Effken will be writing our new "Issues, Impacts and Insights" Column in upcoming Journal issues, beginning with Volume 14, Issue 3 - October 2010.
Denise Hammel-Jones, RN-BC, MSN, CLSSBB Denise is responsible for our "Crucial Conversations about Optimal Design" Column with Nancy!
Ms. Jones currently works for Greencastle Associates Consulting as a Clinical Management Consultant on various healthcare technology projects. Prior to Ms. Jones career in consulting, she worked as a clinical applications and project manager for large healthcare organizations within the Philadelphia area. The experience with working on numerous Computerized Provider Order Management projects has positioned Ms. Jones to provide clinical expertise and guidance for the Computerized Provider Order Management Project at Atlantic Health, located in Northern New Jersey.
A nurse for over 17 years, Ms. Jones began her career in Critical Care nursing at the University of Pennsylvania Health System. While continuing her nursing practice in critical care, Ms. Jones held an adjunct faculty position at LaSalle University. Ms. Jones began her transition into Informatics while working in Disease Management in the late 1990's. Having experience in CPOE, EMR, Practice Management, eMAR, clinical documentation implementations as well as Nursing Minimum Data Sets and Outcome Measures , Ms. Jones is an experienced Informatics professional
Ms. Jones holds a BSN from Thomas Jefferson University and a MSN from LaSalle University. Since completing her Master's degree; Ms. Jones has obtained certification in Nursing Informatics, Lean Six Sigma, and Six Sigma Greenbelt. Ms. Jones is active is several professional organizations and is past-president of the Kappa Delta Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau.
MEET THE REST OF THE TEAM!Ms. Jones will be sharing our new "Crucial Conversations about Optimal Design" Column with Nancy Staggers (see above) in upcoming Journal issues, beginning with Volume 14, Issue 3 - October 2010.