#CNIA2021 - Integrating Care and Connection in a Digital World
- IT_Nurse
- May 25, 2021
- 2 min read
The 2021 Canadian Nursing Informatics Association National Conference was held this week, and I was thrilled to not just attend, but to also be involved with several components. The theme was "Integrating Care and Connection in a Digital World", which I was definitely appropriate given the year we just went through. I've included some links at the bottom of this post to the conference materials, but here's the highlights:
The conference kicked off on Monday with four pre-conference workshops:
Nursing, Artificial Intelligence, and Clinical Decision Support
User-Centered Design
Introduction to Nursing Informatics
Virtual Care Implications for Canadian Nurses and Patients
Tuesday featured a fantastic opening keynote by Dr. Elizabeth Borycki.
Wednesday featured a panel of clinicians working on the One Patient One Record initiative in Nova Scotia, along with 26 Rapid Fire presentations. The presentations fell within the following themes:
Informatics in Practice During COVID
Clinical Decision Support / AI
Equitable Informatics / Education
COVID workflow / Simulation
Virtual Care and Portals
Technology for Perinatal Care
Clinical Informatics
Thursday featured another great panel, along with a Poster session. 18 Posters were reviewed in the themes of:
Competency
Education
Electronic Health Records
Nursing Practice
Patients
Friday featured a wonderful closing keynote by Dr. Lynn Nagle
This is the second year that I've had the good fortune to be able to attend the conference, and it was definitely a great experience. Last time the conference was held in-person, and I was able to assist here and there with some of the pieces. It was such a great experience that I promised myself I would be more involved with planning future conferences. This time I attended a number of the (zoom) conference planning sessions, and it was really nice to be more involved and get to know other members a little better. Additionally, I was thrilled when the committee asked if I would if I would co-lead the AI/Decision Support workshop with Dr. Richard Booth. I think it actually went pretty well, and I was really pleased with the positive feedback. I also provided one of the Rapid Fire presentations, and had the honor of introducing one of the groups of panelists. I learned so much that honestly I'm still sorting through it all; I can't wait for all the presentations to be available online so I can go through them more thoroughly.
The last thing I need to say is how impressed I am that CNIA managed to make this conference a reality this year. Especially huge kudos have to go out to the CNIA president-elect, Dr. Tracie Risling, who led all the conference planning sessions with an incredible amount of enthusiasm.
Can't wait for the next one!
CNIA Conference Documents:
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