In September, we kicked off our Nightingale’s Innovative Nurses campaign! At Nightingale Apps, we believe in innovation, compassion, and serving others. That’s why we’ve decided to highlight nurses that use ingenuity to solve problems at the bedside. If you’d like to nominate a nurse or even yourself please reach out to us at contact@nightingaleapps.com. We’ve shared… Read more
Where do I start?
November 05, 2017
Earlier this week I spent some time speaking to a group of graduate nursing students at a college in Boston Massachusetts. We talked about the foundations of nursing informatics, electronic health records (EHRs), apps, and problem solving in the field. Each student mentioned something that could be improved with regard to their current health IT… Read more
Healthcare Innovation: It Takes the Time that it Takes
October 02, 2017
Did you know that the first electronic health records (e.g., EHRs) were developed in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s? I did not know this when I first came to know them in the early 2000’s. I naively thought, ‘how hard can it be to take paper records and turn them into an electronic form?’…. Read more
Nurse Entrepreneurship & Nightingale’s Innovative Nurses
September 18, 2017
I knew very little about entrepreneurship when I started down this path several years ago. I had the idea and vision for Know My Patient®. I knew that every bedside nurse deserves an opportunity to have accurate, up to date information needed for patient care at their fingertips. I knew chasing after information was a… Read more
PhD versus DNP: Which one should you choose?
August 10, 2017 |
Are you deciding upon a doctoral degree in nursing? There are two primary choices: a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP). Both degrees are supported by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and represent terminal degrees in the field of Nursing. However, there are differences between the two… Read more
