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A small project team has come together, sponsored by the College Executive Director Professor
Jenny Carryer, with Dr Mark Jones as the project lead. The project team has representatives from
the Nursing Council, NPs, post graduate academic staff, a General Practitioner and College
administrator. Alongside the project team are some key sector experts who will bring different sets
of skills and knowledge to the project.
The resources will be multimedia, a mix of short video clips, web links, key documents, guidelines
and audio presentations. The project team has been very fortunate to secure the assistance of
Tanya McQueen, Director of Global spirit films, who will film and edit the video clips.
The project is in its early stages but aims to have resources up and running on the College website
by mid-2016.

2015 National Nursing Informatics
Conference
Report by Liz Manning RN BN MPhil FCNA(NZ)

The National Nursing Informatics Conference was held at the Air Force Museum in Christchurch on
19th October 2015. A large turnout of delegates and some excellent speakers saw an inspiring and
thought provoking day linked together with great networking. HiNZ also developed a conference
‘App’ to link delegates, circulate information, presentations and competitions for the Nursing
conference and the following 2 day Health Informatics conference.
Hector Matthews, Executive Director of Maori Health at Canterbury DHB opened the day and
warmly welcomed delegates and speakers to the conference while thanking organisers and
sponsors. The opening address was delivered by Denise Kivell in her role as chairperson of Nurse
Executives NZ.
Keynote speakers:
Kim Mundell, HiNZ CEO delivered an excellent session challenging nurses to take a lead in the
informatics world. Kim, originally a registered nurse stated that health informatics underpins the
nation’s ability to deliver flexible cost effective health care. HiNZ, a neutral professional body
supports the entire field of health informatics and in her role as CEO Kim meets with a broad range
of influencers and leaders in the field, but asked ‘where are the nurses?’ She named a small
number of nurses who are highly regarded in informatics however, there is a need for nurses to be
taking a lead across the sector in delivery of projects. Other clinicians are approached and asked
for opinions and advice, but nursing is a still a quiet voice. Kim challenged nursing to grow
confidence in the language of informatics and to challenge processes that don’t fit with nursing
needs and to articulate what will work for patients and nursing.
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