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Updated September 2008
What do you know about
HI-Profile? Did you know you could sign up (FREE) to attend
HI-Profile events?
Care for infants and toddlers in your practice? The Infant
& Toddler Forum aims to provide healthcare professionals
with practical help and information on infant and toddler
nutrition and development and has a new CPD accredited on
line learning tool called Open Book - all you need to do is
register
Interested in Advanced Practice? Scottish government releases
interesting document: Supporting
the Development of Advanced Nursing Practice
RCN issues important new e-Health Policy Documents: “Consent
to access, share and create eHealth records” and “Nursing
content of electronic patient / client records”.
See the Skills
Framework for Working in an Information Age
ICN Congress Durban June 2009: Call
for Abstracts Sub Theme 8. Technology, innovations and
informatics
Like to get published? Nurse
Author & Editor journal offers advice on writing quality
manuscripts, avoiding rejection, finding publishing opportunities,
editing and reviewing.
Interested in Falls Prevention? Interesting
new research
A Welsh-language health encyclopaedia is now available
online at the NHS Direct Wales website
Informing Healthcare - SUBSCRIBE
to the FREE NEWSLETTER! Just do it!
New report published An
investigation of the emergent professional issues experienced
by nurses when working in an e-health environment
FONS Research opportunity: Up
to £5000 will be available for nurse-led healthcare
teams who are committed to developing and changing practice
through research
FREE OFFER to all nurses! Access
to Sage Health and Nursing Journals for a limted period
The
Winston
Churchill Memorial Trust offers
Fellowships to British Citizens
resident in the UK and from all walks of life to acquire knowledge
and experience abroad*.
The
Commonwealth Fund invites promising mid-career professionals—
to apply for a unique opportunity to spend up to 12 months
in the United States as a Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy
and Practice
Be sure and visit the Clinical
Research Collaboration Cymru
Fully funded PhD Studentship Opportunity: The
Expert Patient’: How the public make use of the internet
and electronic information sources in making choices about
their health and treatment regimes.
see QNI
awards schemes that
offer funding and support for practice-based or research projects
(currently seeking applications)
Informatics
studentship available at Kingston
E-learning
Database for Health
Work in education? Read about the NHS-HE
Forum and (December 2006) see the Forum Presentations
Wikis,
Podcasts and Blogs, used in Health-Related e-Learning and
Educational Services Online
Welcome
to the International Council of Nurses Innovations Database
Masters
Development Opportunity
Are you a School Nurse? A Midwife? Or are you just
interested in Mobile Phone Text Based Consultation? RCN
Information in Nursing Forum with IHCS Bournemouth University
have produced an Investigation
of Current Practice and Associated Best Practice Guidelines
The
University of Wales Aberystwyth: Taught postgraduate degrees
Certificate/Diploma/MScEcon Health Information Management
(Two/three years by distance learning, September intake).
MSc in health informatics at the School of Health Science,
Swansea University. Starts in September 2006. All health
disciplines are welcome and there is a part-time or full-time
option. For further details email Tony Paget (a.paget@swansea.ac.uk)
or see the course
website
Informing Healthcare’s Access to Knowledge Project
(A2K), has
acquired high quality peer-reviewed journals to enhance the
NHS Wales e-library
Are you a midwife? The
RCM Library now provides access for RCM members to a collection
of 'top twenty' electronic textbooks in midwifery.
Be sure you are up to date with the new Resuscitation Guidelines 2005
Work with children? See the Report 'Passing
it on' - the Children's Rights Director's report on
what children think about people who work with them passing
on confidential information to each other.
Are you a nurse or midwife prescriber? See
new NMC
Standards of Proficiency for Nurse and Midwife Prescribers
also read new BMA Report on Adverse
Drug Reactions
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