Central trends in nursing informatics: students' reflections from International Congress on Nursing Informatics 2014

Maxim Topaz1, Charlene Ronquillo, Lisiane Pruinelli

  • 1Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Dr Topaz); University of British Columbia, School of Nursing, Vancouver Canada (Ms Ronquillo); School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Ms Pruinelli and Dr Hamann); School of Nursing, Columbia University, New York (Ms Ramos); Department of Nursing Science, University of Turku, and Turku University Hospital, Finland (Mss Peltonen and Siirala); Graduate Institute of Biomedical Informatics, Taipei Medical University, Taipei (Dr Atique); Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis (Dr Hamann); and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing (Ms Badger).

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