INDEX OF CONTENTS
Summer/Fall 2015

EDITORIAL

Why Every Nurse needs Nursing informatics Courses.

By June Kaminski, RN, MSN, PhD(c), Editor in Chief

Technology in Education Column

Augmented Reality: What to Design?

By Dr Sandra Bassendowski

Software Column

Open-Source Software

By Allen McLean, RN, MN, MSc, PhD(c)

Featured Paper

Nursing’s Voice in Healthcare IT Acquisition Decisions

By Allen McLean, RN, MN, MSc, PhD(c), Noreen Frisch, PhD RN FAAN & Abdul Roudsari, PhD

Featured Showcase

Reflections on the innovative use of storytelling to develop students’ leadership skills, Pt 1: Preamble

By Dr. Wendy Young

Reflections on the innovative use of storytelling to develop students’ leadership skills, Pt 2: Student and Leader Reflections

By Chelsey Nelson, 4th year BSN St, Tina Choi, 4th year BSN St and featuring Dawn Nedzelski, RN BSN MA St., and Jennifer Matheson Parkhill, RN MHS

Reflections on the innovative use of storytelling to develop students’ leadership skills, Pt 3: Student Perspectives

By Elizabeth Joly, RN MSN, Interviewed by Chelsey Nelson, 4th year BSN St, Tina Choi, 4th year BSN St

Reflections on the innovative use of storytelling to develop students’ leadership skills, Pt 4: Faculty Perspectives

By Dr Lynne Young, Interviewed by Chelsey Nelson, 4th year BSN St, Tina Choi, 4th year BSN St

Featured Article

Using Wikis in an Online Asynchronous Graduate Nursing Theories Course: Description of An Innovative Educational Experience

By Louise Racine RN PhD, Lorraine Holtslander, RN PhD, Barbara Schindelka & Ryan Banow

Featured Article

Examining the Nature of Palliative Care Consult Team (PCCT) Referrals seen by Clinical Nurse Specialists

By Kalli Stilos, RN MSN, Tammy Lilien, BA, Dr. Lesia Wynnychuk, M.D., Patricia Daines, RN MSN

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Leveraging Mobile Technology to Reduce Hospital Readmissions

This white paper discusses how prominent hospitals and health systems are using remote monitoring devices and applications in their programs as a way to connect patients and clinicians and to impact care outside of the organization.

HIMSS Analytics – Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model

HIMSS Analytics has created the EMR Adoption Model, an 8-stage model that allows you to track your progress against healthcare organizations across the country and view all scores in the HIMSS Analytics® Database.

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