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Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Network

Nursing and midwifery informatics has a unique role in ensuring a digitally enabled health system delivers on the promise of better health outcomes for all Australians. Nursing is the largest single profession in the healthcare workforce and provides continuous care to patients during inpatient stays and to consumers within community and primary healthcare settings. The role of nurses and midwives in the digital environment has the potential to not only deliver improvements in efficiency and patient outcomes, but also to facilitate an improved consumer and clinician experience.

Suki Loe, WA Health

About the Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Network

The Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Network is the pre-eminent group of nursing and midwifery informaticians in Australia. Membership is open to all registered nurses and registered midwives.

The Network promotes nursing and midwifery informatics priorities such as appropriate language, education and ongoing research. It engenders nursing and midwifery to embrace information and communication technologies, and establishes strong foundations for taking these developments forward.

It also ensures nursing and midwifery has the data and resources to continue to provide evidence-based, quality, cost-effective and outcome-driven care for patients and clients into the future.

White Paper

Learn more about the instrumental role of nurses and midwives in digitally transforming healthcare by downloading the Position Statement.

Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference

CREATING A DIGITALLY SAVVY WORKFORCE
8 July 2023 | Sydney, Australia

IN CONJUNCTION WITH

MEDINFO 2023

The AIDH Nursing.Midwifery Digital Health Network is pleased to invite you to participate in the inaugural Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Conference (#NMDHC23), Australia’s only nursing informatics dedicated event, to be held in Sydney on Saturday 8 July 2023. This conference has evolved from the Nursing Informatics Australia conference, and this year’s theme is Creating a digitally savvy workforce.

In line with the theme of MedInfo 2023 (THE FUTURE IS ACCESSIBLE), our event theme aims to inspire nurses and midwives to become digitally empowered in the future delivery of care to achieve quality outcomes across all healthcare settings.

Leadership

Dr Jen Bichel-Findlay FAIDH CHIA

Dr Jen Bichel-Findlay FAIDH CHIA

Chair, NSW

Dr Helen Almond FAIDH

Dr Helen Almond FAIDH

Vice Chair, Tas

Lecturer in Digital Health & Informatics, Swinburne University of Technology

Berni Zipf

Berni Zipf

Secretary, QLD

Quality and Clinical Support Manager, Fresh Hope Care

Guillaume Leroux

Guillaume Leroux

Member Engagement Coordinator, SA

Customer Experience Manager, Personify Care

Cedar Yin CHIA

Cedar Yin CHIA

Member Engagement Coordinator, NSW

Manager, Systems & Reporting, Catholic Healthcare

Tasneem Islam CHIA

Tasneem Islam CHIA

Digital Content Coordinator, VIC

EMR Perioperative Clinical Application Specialist, Monash Health

Alan  Scanlon CHIA

Alan Scanlon CHIA

Written Content Coordinator, QLD

Nurse Manager – Clinical Systems Analyst, Princess Alexandra Hospital

Saba Akbar

Saba Akbar

Student representative, NSW

PhD Candidate, Macquarie University

Sally Duncan

Sally Duncan

Committee member, NSW

Chief Nurse and Midwifery Information Officer, Northern Sydney Local Health District

Dr Zerina Tomkins

Dr Zerina Tomkins

Committee member, VIC

Teaching and Research Academic, Monash University

Interested in a career in nursing or midwifery informatics?

Nurses and midwives wanting to increase their knowledge and/or skills in nursing, midwifery, or health informatics have several avenues.

Several universities have postgraduate coursework programs and nurses and midwives are advised to contact local universities to ascertain if they provide relevant programs or courses in both on-campus or distance education mode. The Institute provides a list of Health Informatics degree course and short course providers in Australia and New Zealand.

There are also a variety of user-pay or free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) that address specific concepts within nursing, midwifery, or health informatics. Entering nursing or midwifery informatics MOOCs into a search engine will produce a list of available courses and their commencement dates. MOOC platforms include Coursera, edX, Udacity, Open Yale, Udemy. Khan Academy, Alison, FutureLearn, and courses address Nursing Informatics, Health Informatics, Digital Health, and eHealth, and Data Analytics.

Nurses and midwives who have experience in nursing, midwifery, or health informatics and want their skills formally recognised may elect to undertake certification via the Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) program, developed by HISA (Health Informatics Society of Australia), ACHI, and HIMAA (Health Information Management Association of Australia).

Editorials & community blogs

If you would like to contribute to our network and have something to say, send us an email.

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Impact of genomics on nursing and midwifery

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Embers of Innovation and digital health

Embers of Innovation and digital health

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The impact of a pandemic on nursing and midwifery

The impact of a pandemic on nursing and midwifery

Have your say on this topic by logging into the CoP forum on the members’ SocialLink for nursing and midwifery. The Impact of a Pandemic on Nursing and Midwifery By Dr Jen Bichel-Findlay It is hard to envisage the difference in circumstances...

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News & updates

Institute welcomes digital health capability framework

Institute welcomes digital health capability framework

The National Nursing and Midwifery Digital Health Capability Framework is positively welcomed by the Australasian Institute of Digital Health’s Nursing and Midwifery Community of Practice. The framework provides: a transparent vison for nurses and...

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Resources

Nursing Informatics Strategic Paper

A framework for nursing informatics in Australia

International Council of Nurses

Operated by nurses and leading nursing internationally, ICN works to ensure quality nursing care for all and sound health policies globally.

Nursing Informatics Position Statement

The first national statement to affirm the role of nurses in digital healthcare at all levels and in all health settings.

Celebrating the Moya Conrick winners

2019    Leanna Woods    Melbourne
2018    Joanne Reid    Sydney
2017    Suki Loe    Brisbane
2016    Naomi Dobroff    Melbourne
2015    Bernice Redley    Brisbane
2014    Josephine Stevens    Melbourne
2013    Johanna Westbrook    Adelaide
2012    Livio Ciacciarelli   Sydney
2011    Susan Moller    Brisbane
2010    Sharon Downman    Melbourne

Nursing.Midwifery Informatics on Digital Health TV

A member-exclusive benefit featuring hundreds of videos.

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Forecasting informatics competencies for nurses in the future of connected health

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Nursing midwifery leadership and health informatics

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Australian nurses experience with nursing informatics

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