Dr. Lynn Nagle, keynote speaker at 2007 Conference

LYNN NAGLE RN, PhD has her own Health Informatics consulting practice under Nagle & Associates Inc., providing consultation on issues and initiatives related to nursing and health informatics. With more than 25 years of healthcare experience, Dr. Nagle has worked in a wide variety of settings and roles. Her work as a clinician, educator, researcher, and administrator has provided her with a broad-based perspective of healthcare delivery and information management needs. Here a just are few of her many
accomplishments:

- Founding and immediate past-president of the Canadian Nursing Informatics Association
- Previously, Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto
- Currently, Canadian representative for the International Medical Informatics Association, Nursing Informatics Group

- Currently Senior Nursing Advisor to Canada Health Infoway, supporting the End User Adoption Strategy development and deployment
- Chairing the Program Committee for the annual Canadian conference to be held in Quebec City at the end of May.

NBNIG President's Message for 2007-2008

I would like to start by saying what a great experience I have had as president-elect this past year. Despite our Board and Membership’s busy schedules, I have been blown away by the passion and teamwork that this group has in not only realizing its goals, but in fostering change. We have successfully created a strong identity for NB Nursing Informatics as well as awareness, both within the province and nationally. We have initiated a strong recruitment strategy, and have organized our 1st Annual Conference.

This Annual Conference is not only important to NBNIG, but for all nurses. The awareness we bring as a market to our vendors and public is invaluable. Most of us go into work everyday, thinking that our choices are limited, that if only our work environments could be more efficient, that if only we could feel valued. It is groups such as ours that can help bring a voice to how nurses, along with our public can benefit from innovation and technology. It is our mission to facilitate this transfer of information and knowledge within our communities.

This year, NBNIG hopes to continue its awareness and recruitment strategies to help foster this knowledge transfer. To gain insight from nurses working in many different fields and to understand how informatics can best help us to achieve our goals in healthcare. This time next year, NBNIG will have an established provincial website that will facilitate communications and support the advancements of nursing informatics. Our recruitment strategy will expand into our Universities, hospitals, government and community health agencies. As NB nurses, we hope to remain connected and to share knowledge among our fellow provinces as well as with our National body.

To conclude, I want to express my congratulations to this past year’s group for their success, and I look forward to what our present membership will achieve this year!

Trisha Coady

President, NBNIG