Celebrating the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife: A look at nursing in JAMIA

摘要

In celebration of the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, widely acknowledged as the founder of modern nursing, the World Health Organization declared 2020 as the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Nursing informatics is a key component of the broader field of biomedical and health informatics as well as the Nursing Informatics Working Group, a large and vibrant working group within the American Medical Informatics Association community. The American Nurses Association (ANA) defined nursing informatics as a specialty and published the first standards for its practice more than 25 years ago.1,2 As described in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA), the definition has evolved through the years.3 The most recent ANA definition is the following: