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CARING Contacts<br />
Newsletter<br />
Debra Derickson, MS, RN<br />
3774 Gunston Road<br />
Alex<strong>and</strong>ria, VA 22302<br />
H: 703/578-0415<br />
E-Mail: DebraDerickson@comcast.net<br />
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Membership<br />
Susan K. Newbold, MS, RNBC, FAAN<br />
6460 South Wind Circle<br />
Columbia, MD 21044<br />
H: 410/531-9244<br />
E-Mail: snewbold@umaryl<strong>and</strong>.edu<br />
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CARING Board of Directors:<br />
Jerry Chamberlain<br />
President<br />
Patrick Shannon<br />
Vice President, Program Planning<br />
Amy Jacobs<br />
Treasurer<br />
Placidia Clark<br />
Secretary<br />
Debra Derickson<br />
Newsletter Editor<br />
Jason Windsor<br />
Marketing Liaison<br />
Susan Newbold<br />
Membership, ANI Representative, E-list<br />
Liberty Rovira<br />
Web Committee Liaison<br />
Stephen Prouse<br />
CARING Webmaster<br />
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CARING Web site – Homepage<br />
http://www.caringonline.org<br />
CARING Sponsors <strong>and</strong> Supports <strong>the</strong> TIGER Initiative<br />
CARING is a proud sponsor of <strong>the</strong> TIGER Initiative - Technology <strong>In<strong>for</strong>matics</strong><br />
Guiding Educational Re<strong>for</strong>m. The purpose of <strong>the</strong> initiative is to identify<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation/knowledge management best practices <strong>and</strong> effective technology<br />
capabilities <strong>for</strong> nurses. TIGER’s goal is to create <strong>and</strong> disseminate local <strong>and</strong> global<br />
action plans that can be duplicated within nursing <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r multidisciplinary<br />
healthcare training <strong>and</strong> workplace settings.<br />
TIGER Vision:<br />
• Allow in<strong>for</strong>matics tools, principles, <strong>the</strong>ories <strong>and</strong> practices to be used by<br />
nurses to make healthcare safer, effective, efficient, patient-centered, timely<br />
<strong>and</strong> equitable<br />
• Interweave enabling technologies transparently into nursing practice <strong>and</strong><br />
education, making in<strong>for</strong>mation technology <strong>the</strong> stethoscope <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>21st</strong><br />
century<br />
TIGER Expected Outcomes:<br />
• Publish a summit report, including summit findings <strong>and</strong> exemplars of<br />
excellence<br />
• Establish guidelines <strong>for</strong> organizations to follow as <strong>the</strong>y integrate in<strong>for</strong>matics<br />
knowledge, skills <strong>and</strong> abilities into academic <strong>and</strong> practice settings<br />
• Set an agenda whereby <strong>the</strong> nursing organizations specify what <strong>the</strong>y plan to<br />
do to bridge <strong>the</strong> quality chasm via in<strong>for</strong>mation technology.<br />
TIGER Summit:<br />
As part of <strong>the</strong>ir work, TIGER will be conducting an invitation-only summit,<br />
October 30th – November 1st 2006 at <strong>the</strong> Uni<strong>for</strong>med Services University Health<br />
Sciences (USUHS) in Be<strong>the</strong>sda, Maryl<strong>and</strong>. The summit will bring toge<strong>the</strong>r leaders<br />
from <strong>the</strong> nation’s nursing practice, education, <strong>and</strong> in<strong>for</strong>matics/technology<br />
organizations, government agencies, <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r key stakeholders around a singular<br />
exploratory focus: “How can we trans<strong>for</strong>m nursing practice <strong>and</strong> education to<br />
integrate in<strong>for</strong>mation technology to promote safer, higher-quality patient care?”<br />
The summit will yield a vision <strong>and</strong> action plans <strong>for</strong> trans<strong>for</strong>ming nursing practice<br />
<strong>and</strong> education over <strong>the</strong> next 10 years to prepare nurses to practice in an<br />
increasingly automated, in<strong>for</strong>matics-rich, <strong>and</strong> consumer-driven health care<br />
environment. Several CARING members will attend <strong>the</strong> invitational event.<br />
Three publications are planned to be <strong>the</strong> major summit deliverables.<br />
1) Seven challenge papers to be written by <strong>the</strong> summit case study exemplar<br />
presenters.<br />
2) Preliminary report of <strong>the</strong> summit. Expected publication date 11/30/06.<br />
3) Report of <strong>the</strong> summit. Expected publication date 3/31/07.<br />
Please visit http://www.umbc.edu/tiger/ <strong>for</strong> more in<strong>for</strong>mation.<br />
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